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Delete this if it breaks the rules, but please PM me the answer if you know it. Thanks.

EDIT: The period I'm most interested in is 8th-11th century.

Much like there have been many people who have claimed to be the Second Coming of Jesus or Jesus reincarnated, has there ever been someone throughout history who has claimed something akin to this, but for Prophet Mohammed?

How could people as for example Marco Polo, Greeks learning Latin, get to learn languages during these periods? Was it hard to become a polyglot 500 or 1000 years ago? How could tribes interact with each other?

Not an American here. Watching the election through the years (and the strife rise particularly in this year), I was wondering: when did the Two-part system become such a staple of the way Americans choose their leaders? Is it really rare for Americans to choose a third party, not necessarily aligned to the left or the right-wing?

Not criticizing here, just wondering and looking for a historical, serious and unbiased answers please.

I.e A B C D etc. not for example L K O P etc.

Did early farmers have some sort of pesticide? Did they deal with it at all?

So my knowledge of African history before colonialism is essentially nothing. What are some books that I could use to make it not night. I recognise that there is probably not going to be one book covering the entire continent, so books about a particular region/country would be great as well. Thank you in advance.

Was it appreciated as a greater work by the Greeks who heard it performed orally? Did it rise above others when evaluated by a later group of critics? Or did it earn its (nearly) unique place in the canon by surviving intact while most of the others were lost?

At what point did Rome or the Eastern Roman Empire become known by people outside of its borders as a Greek state, rather than Roman. I know the majority of Byzantium's citizens considered themselves Roman, but at what point did Greek become the language of administration rather than Latin?

Do we know if there were any revolts? Was there any large scale unrest or opposition? Did any pagan writers say anything or was the aristocracy completely Christian by the late 4th/5th century? Do we have any estimates as to how many people actually worshipped Roman or Greek gods by this time?

How long did the social structure that is associated with, say, peasants in 14^th century Montaillou survive in western Europe (i.e. not Russia)? When did peasants move away from their traditions and into a more "modern" social structure? And, lastly, are there any photos or studies on those groups of people if anyone had the foresight to record what life was like for those peasants?

I am just wondering if the Hebrew language has been completely deciphered? Do we understand all of the ancient language?? Thanks in advance.

Let's take the example of the Roman Empire because that's always popular, although really anything in the same general era would work just as well.

So, conquerors like Alexander the Great would wage campaigns netting them hundreds of thousands of acres in land area over the course of years. Then they'd move on to other lands beyond what they'd just conquered. How would the rapidly growing empire establish itself in conquered lands?

• Would they have uprooted the entire aristocracy/ruling class of the lands they conquered, or would they allow lesser officials to retain their standing for the sake of stability?

• If they allowed any officials to stay, how did they ensure loyalty?

• How many soldiers, if any, would they leave behind to enforce the new order? If this number was small, how could they ensure they wouldn't just get killed?

• If it was a lot of soldiers, where did they pull troops from to replenish their main army's numbers? How did they ensure loyalty out of wherever their recruits were pulled from?

• For every step of this process, how did they surmount the language barriers?

I realize these are a lot of questions, so I'd be happy if even part of these could be answered. It just seems as though, given limitations with communication and mobility, it'd be difficult to administrate over large land areas effectively. I just get this image of "conquered" lands going "yeah, sure, okay, new ruler, whatever" and not changing much except where they send their taxes, because hey, Alex is busy fighting Persia, who's gonna know?

Centurions have been rightly compared to being roughly analogous to modern day junior to mid level officers, but was their career progression the same? Provided a Roman citizen secured a commission as a centurion, could they feasibly one day become a legate/General? How likely would it be, did it ever happen, and what would the typical career of a centurion look like?

Thanks!

Or was it the act of worship that made Emperors divine?