It seems like the USA is honoring native america by naming so many things across the country after it, even though there was so much conflict, and hatred only a little over a hundred years ago.

Hello,

I had a friend of mine who majored history/linguists tell me the following:

• Most Germanic/Celtic/Gaulic(I will just refer to them as northern Europeans for simplicity) languages originated from the Indo Europeans or PIE(proto Indo Europeans)

• Most pagan religion of the northern Europeans originated from the original Indo European religion (Dyaus and Zeus commonalities with Hinduism for example)

• The idea of a "warrior" culture and a class of elite fighters on horse back came from the Indo Europeans.

He also told me that these were just his personal viewpoints and that none of it is concrete and almost all of those points are hotly contested in academia. If these are true, it seems pretty important to our civilization's history, so I guess my question is how valid are those 3 bullet points I listed?

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I was reminded recently that France was one of the biggest reasons for the Colonies' success in the Revolution. They contributed many boots and boats, and almost completely emptied their treasury, which was a cause leading to their own revolution. But why were they so eager to help America in particular? Did it have to do more with their good relationship with the Colonies or their rivalry with Great Britain, or something else entirely?

Hello everyone. I am studying law and was looking for some info on the 'Corpus Iuris Civilis' compiled by order of Emperor Justinian I.

I would like to know where in the world one could find the oldest copy or copies of this text (museum, university, etc.).

i.e, besides those joining for purely ideological reasons, were there actually clinical psychopaths who enrolled in order to carry out crimes with little to no consequences?

What I am asking is basically a document, or a mention of a discussion that ancient people had about future, and how they imagined distant future to be.

I read or heard somewhere that the Romans used to add gods of the civilizations they defeated to their pantheon. I tried googling different terms but couldn't find anything about it. Am I imagining it or is it true?

If it is true, why did they do it? When did it start? Did they ever skip the adoption of a god? And which gods did they adopt?

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Lets say 16-24 years old, land owning family of average income, and that I haven't been in any trouble in public or with the church.

1. How likely is it that I will be accused?

2. Who is most likely to accuse me?

3. What is my daily life like now that witch accusations are flying around?

4. How will my family react to an accusation or protect me from an accusation?

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Was there any interest in emulation similar reforms in other religious traditions? Was there a Russian Luther who never quite made it?

How did relay of photographs taken from satellites to analysts on the ground work before the ability to digitise photographs? I heard of film reels being sent back to earth, but how many would one craft have? and what would happen once the craft ran out of film?

Something I've always been curious about and which the Wikipedia articles on Chiang Kai-shek and Taiwan and any other readings I've seen only glaze over. Wikipedia states that in 1949 Chiang evacuated about 2 million people to Taiwan and doesn't elaborate from there. This leaves me with many many questions.

How exactly did Chiang get them all to Taiwan? Did the KMT have a navy it used to transport them? How and when was the decision that the war was lost made, and how did the decision to move to Taiwan come about? How did Chiang... Convince? Force? Two million people to leave their homes? Presumably these people were spread across a wide area, how was their evacuation coordinated? Also, I'm guessing Mao didn't just sit around and watch this happen. Were KMT forces just trying to slow Mao down to stall for time? Were many left behind to buy time for this evacuation?

Further, Wikipedia states that Chiang's last stand on the mainland was in Chengdu, far from the coast. While it does state that Chiang flew out from an airfield in Chengdu to Taiwan, I've got to imagine that Chengdu, being one of the last KMT strongholds, and the surrounding province were a power base for Chiang and that many of his supporters were there. How did those who were not fortunate enough to get on an airplane get out? I'm guessing the KMT airforce wasn't particularly large although I have no actual knowledge about this.

Pretty self explanatory. We all know how catastrophic the diseases were after Columbus' initial contact in the Americas; but it doesn't seem like the Norse settlers brought any disease along when settling in Vinland. Is there any evidence to the contrary?

How did it all get started? People of African decent have been living in Europe for hundreds of years and Europeans have been traveling there even longer to record of great flourishing African kingdoms.

During slavery, where did white Americans get the belief that they were a superior race to black Africans?

I know there are cases of people like Fred Korematsu taking legal action to prevent internment, but did any Japanese-Americans take violent steps? Additionally, how common was firearm ownership among the Japanese-American community?

Finland had spent the past hundred years as a Grand Duchy of Russia, and beyond that something of a recurring tug-of-war between Russia and Sweden it seems, so Independence seems like it would have been a new thing for them, not like, say, Poland which had antecedents to look to in its historical past.

So following independence, how did Finland work to create a new Finnish nation and people?

[Interwar Period - Scandinavia - National Identity]

I'm interested in learning more about the Russian (Eastern) front of World War I. The problem I keep running into is I normally get World war II results when searching. Could someone give me a quick list of major battles to start with to better understand a front that I know almost nothing about?

I can't think of any country past the Roman empire that attempted the world conquest achievement. For most nations past the romans they all seemed to have good reasons to go to war (succession, religion, political reasons, alliances etc) but I've never heard anything about the Roman justification of how much they conquered.

This may be a stupid question but its something I've been wondering about after having done a fair bit of hiking this summer. Were the roads an efficient manner of traveling? If not, did a traveler just set off knowing that their destination was in a generally northward direction? If that was the case, how did they avoid simply missing it wide and continuing north?

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