If sent to training, what is it like? Is the path anything similar to current army trainings nowadays?

I mean, most cultures, and places have their own form of bread, but doesn't bread last for significantly less periods of time than the raw grain?What is a benefit of making bread? How did it evolve separately in each part of the world to become a major portion of the modern humans diet. It's fascinating really.

I'm trying to decide if World War II was the only event in human history that affected virtually all humanity (the except being uncontacted tribes and the like). I have a few ideas of places that might have been virtually unaffected.

Western South America- I know Argentina and Brazil were involved in the war, but what about places like Chile or Peru

Central America- What about a country like Costa Rica? I think I read that German naval units were active in the Caribbean, but did they ever make it to mainland Central America?

Any help guys?

What language would the Persian and Greek diplomats have used to communicate?

I guess I should ask this in /askanthropologists but I always wanted to know if there is an existing record or some kind of documentation of how couples were formed between "cavemen and cavewomen". I can't fathom how a caveman would try to woo some woman he feels something for. Would he try to gift her some meat? Juggle some rocks? Paint her naked in the back of his cave?

I understeand that Romans preferred to fight in a "fair" fight, on plain field with their heavy infantry, no "tricks" like Hanniball's manouvers. Does this mean that when two Roman commanders collided they just sent their units in a standard formation to see who beats who? Wouldnt that always favor larger force?

Furthermore, why did so many countries vote in favor for the PRC? Wouldn't it be beneficial to have another pro-democratic country in the UN Security council? Finally, by warming up relations with the PRC, did the Western world abandon any hope for a pro-democratic China?

So I was thinking today about how Teddy Roosevelt's wife died while giving birth and how Thomas Jefferson's died when they still had a infant daughter. Now I know in countries with nobility there were wet nurses to feed babies, but what about the US? Were there wet nurses for hire? What if someone was poor? Would someone like Jefferson have a slave woman breast feed his children? Did babies ever starve to death simply because their mothers were dead and there was no one to feed them?

I know that Pearl Harbor directly spurred major racism against people of Japanese origin, leading to the camps, but was there this general fear of an imminent attack similar to the fear of terrorist attacks today?

Well, my first attempt at trying to get into history, here goes nothing.

So, one day, I was talking to my friends about World War II, and the results of it, when we stumbled upon the topic of the Pacific Ocean theater. We were discussing the losses of the US Navy versus the IJN, and my friend made a claim that there wasn't any naval battle in the second World War that the Japanese were victorious in. Is this true?

Sorry if I used some incorrect or vague terminology here and there, I don't know a lot about this topic.

I'm thinking c. 700-1300 CE in Western Europe (Great Britain, France, HRE, etc.). I feel like I can picture the homes of the rich fairly well because they're depicted so often on television (and still exist in some areas), and I have also read great descriptions of the apartments that the Roman poor lived in. However, I've never read much about the homes that peasants lived in during the Middle Ages. I'm interested in both rural and urban homes, but if you only know about one that's fine too. Thanks!

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I noticed a lot of serial killers were charged with sodomy. So was this mainly an extra charge that could be tacked onto a list of crimes to make it longer? Or was it like loitering, used as an excuse to charge "undesirables" with a crime? Or was it neither of those? Edit: I was thinking of the USA in the 20th century.

From a comment on a previous question (h/t /u/ggchappell)

Two possibilities I see:

1. One decides it occurred because he wasn't faithful enough to the Gods -- the religion gets strengthened.

2. One decides the Gods don't give a toss and so find a new God.

I believe that the latter is closer to what happened, though both probably took place, the first among a smaller minority of the population but I have nothing other than a layman's conjecture to base this on. And I was wondering if there are any sources to that effect?

I know the Secret Service didn't exist until 1865, but did the Founding Fathers, possibly the big names have bodyguards or secret service-like people to protect them from the British soldiers or Loyalists?

By 'personally' I mean being able to physically see them die: not giving the command to bomb a city from afar, or telling a general to send troops somewhere, or things like that.

Did these people write on their experiences, and did it have a marked impact on their rule or their personality?