Was watching the season finale of GOT the other day and that got me thinking, was the phalanx formation still used in medieval times? Initially I thought that after the romans people started adopting the more flexible swordsman units. But it wouldn't make sense to abandon a brilliant tactical formation, even if it sacrifices mobility.
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I was playing some EU4 extended timeline, noticed that Iberia and Albania were for some reason where the Caucuses mountains are. I was wondering if there's any relation between C. Iberia and current Spain or C. Albania and modern day Albania. Was there an mass migration? Not really familiar in Central Asian ancient history.
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Prussia>Germany, England>Britain, Castile>Spain, Muscovy>Russia, Piedmont>Italy, etc.
Why did Sweden>Scandinavia never happen?
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It seems that USSR created puppet governments everywhere they occupied, and Austria had a similar occupational situation to Germany. Why was there no East and West Austria like it happened in Germany?
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I was looking at this picture when in the comments somebody posted the names of the crew and their positions in the plane. I noticed that there were a few officers but the rest were NCOs.
Was a certain rank required in order to be in a bomber crew, or did the rank sort of "come with the training" (i.e., you sign up to be a bomber crewman, go through training and at the end come out with the rank of sergeant)?
Also, obviously the pilot and co-pilot were the people who flew the plane, but would anyone else on the crew also be trained to fly?
If anyone has perspectives from countries other than the US, those are more than welcome too!
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I've done a fair amount of research regarding the allocation of resources during the war, and the introduction of the North Africa campaign strained resources in more critical European fronts. How significant was this strain, and were there any other aspects of the North African campaign that adversely affected the outcome of World War two?
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Lets say I'm a farmer in England in the 15th century. Did I identify myself as English? If so, how important was that for me and for the country? For instance, did people ''enroll'' to fight wars for their country?
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During the Cold War, West Berlin was completely surrounded by East Germany, so all land travel to and from the U.S. sector would have had to go through miles and miles of East German territory.
From what I have read, there was an agreement with the German Democratic Republic that allowed the use of certain rail lines or roads connecting West Berlin to West Germany for transporting food/goods and passengers. However, I wondered just how freely military vehicles would have been allowed to use those same routes.
For example, during the tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961, where Soviet T-55 tanks faced off with U.S. M48 tanks only a few hundred feet apart over the border between East/West Berlin, were additional U.S. tanks brought in from West Germany as a build up of force? Would that even have been possible on short notice? Or were the tanks already present in the U.S. sector at the time?
If military vehicles were allowed to move relatively freely to and from West Berlin via rail or road, were there agreed upon limits to the number that would be allowed, particularly armored offensive vehicles like tanks?
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My knowledge of Roman history is pretty good for a layman, but I can't think of a year when there wasn't a dominant consul.
And as a secondary question, in world history was there ever a duocracy (or triplocracy) like the consulate with neither of the leaders being more powerful than the other?
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According to this Lindybeige video there have been instances of WW1 enemy soldiers coming across each other, putting down their firearms, and yelling and throwing rocks at each other instead of engaging in a battle. How many documented instances of this have there been and how often did it occur?
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I'm reading the book "Caesar: Life of a Colossus" and I'm finding it hard to keep track of the levels within it. I understand the difference between the patricians and the plebeians, but when it comes to consuls and senators and who influences others and so on, I get confused. Like how tribunes could be representatives of both (I could have that part wrong. Hence the reason I ask!). If it's not too much trouble, I'm more of a visual person, could there be a graph? (I've looked online for some, but I still don't get it) Thank you in advance!
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In particular France and England, where if I am not mistaken, the crown considered themselves partially divine in nature. There is also the close relationship between the french crown and the Avignon papacy.
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Reading about ancient Greek religion and touching upon Hades, he seems to me to be some kind of "untouchable" and not in a good way, when it comes to Gods. People seemed to stay away from him and not mention him unless in some serious dispute. His position is more equivalent to devil of abrahamic religion than God with the way he is treated. Temples to him seem to be extremely rare.
Why is that the case? Why wouldn't God of Death be the chief among Gods? After all, we all die, and would go to his realm, so why not get good with him? Maybe ask for a longer life, or perhaps a better place in afterlife etc.. Yet that is not the case. And a lot of other polytheistic religions that have a God of dead, death etc.. seem to not give him too much of regard.
Am I too influenced by Abrahamic religions, which seem to be all about the afterlife and life after death?
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Also, how exactly would people in ancient Greece react if you told them you worship Hades actively, or more than any other Gods?
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I am aware that different opinions exist regarding this question- but I just wanted to know if there was a general consensus amongst historians. Thank you in advance!
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not sure if in the right subreddit So I was reading this articlehttp://www.iflscience.com/space/what-if-our-cities-were-lit-billions-stars/ and got curious about what the sky must have looked like to people prior to electricity. But at the same time wondered if this is what it looks like without light pollution why aren't their more paintings of the night sky looking like this from those eras?
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