My question is inspired by listening to Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon. He talks about how the size of ancient armies and how their casualties were nothing compared to WWI. But according to Wikipedia, 50-70k Roman troops died in one day. And in WWI, 22k was close to the one day max.

So was WWI really not that extreme compared to ancient battles?

He was sentenced to only 10 years, as opposed to much longer sentences handed to the other members of the Spandau Seven.

I am listening to the podcast, 'History of Rome', and keep getting surprised by the numbers i hear for both sides of the battles. It seems that the men fielded even just by city states Rome encounters are often much larger then what an entire country is able to muster during the Medieval period.

Was it just population decline of cities? Were the older civilizations more sophisticated when it came to logistics?

In the book I'm currently reading, the protagonist states his desire to acquire a horse "that knows how to carry a wounded rider and, when its rider falls, remains by him."

Does such training have a historical basis in reality?

These days, such a major arms purchase would need end user certificates, all sorts of permits from a web of law enforcement agencies and the DoD, if not approval from Congress. Oh and I'd probably need to be a nation state (I think there's a seminar to become just that). But what kind of bureaucracy would I have had to deal with at the end of the 19th Century?

I am given to understand that in the 1600s most of the European monarchies were more centralized and more recognizable as states than their middle age counterparts, and I am interested in how exactly this transition occurred.

For instance, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, would this have been played by organists throughout Europe at the time? Or did the spread of composers' music accelerate at a later date?

I was just thinking of how Rome has loads of buildings, amphitheatres, coliseums from the Roman empire, but we don't seem to have any in London.

Is it because we didn't care about preserving them and took them down? Or did they get destroyed in battles? Or just natural wear and tear?

Did they have a part in killing Jewish people in the holocaust ? Like executing them etc. ? Were all of them supporters of Hitler's idelogoy ? I've heard that most of them were forced to fight(which sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me), is it true ?

I prefer books with a lot of technical information, but also a decent narrative.

I know there are some Germanic languages like German and Dutch and maybe a little bit English. But English is angel Saxion or something (sorry I'm clueless) and French and Spanish and Italian are roamed (Latin) languages. What about Scandinavian languages? And east Europe where they speak slav languages?(dunno that term either sorry)

Please inform me!

If this might be to hard to answer because accounts may vary a great deal, could you give examples from maybe one or more famous battles and time periods.

To be serious, I know Elizabeth was presenting herself as pure and virginal and that her pale white make-up was a reflection of that. Was that image so inseparable that anyone would automatically connect the concept of "a virgin" to "Our beloved Queen Elizabeth"?

EDIT: Wow, only just now noticing the bad grammar and wording. Well, I did get some great stuff to read, worth the embarassment.

For example would there be bilingual Chinese and Korean speaking communities living in the same city? Did Chinese/Korean marriages ever happen?