I was born in Iraq but have lived in America. I want to learn about Iraq but want an honest and academic source that has few to no bias.

I'm a history undergraduate student and this semester I'm coursing my first seminar which is oriented towards the treatment of a source from the late antiquity. I chose the Variae from Cassiodorus, which is fascinating to say the least. My main focus is to understand how Theodoric planned or intended to make Gothic culture coexist with the Latin culture. I mean, did he want to maintain Gothic culture, replace it, upgrade it, etc. with the roman culture? Or maybe maintain the culture for each region and treat them according to local customs? I'm not asking you guys to answer these questions, but some bibliography to orient myself would be really helpful for me :) Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

I know they can be destroyed by alot of things but can't that apply to everything? Wouldn't battleships be effective in long term battles and blockades?

I've always wondered how they settled treaties and such. For example, when the British surrendered to the 13 Colonies, how did they get the information to Britain and back to America? How long would information like that take? Or how did the Natives communicate with the Europeans? The two sets of languages are totally different and there were no translation guidelines back then.

I have never came across any references to the Gatling gun being used on the Western front, but I was interested if any surplus Gatling guns ever made their way to action in other fronts, such as in Africa, Middle East, etc. I've recently become very interested in World War I, and it seems that, although technologically inferior, the weapon could still have been used with devastating effects in areas that did not have the proper access to 'then' modern day machine guns.

I realize it is a work of fiction, but do we have any historical accounts of her from first hand sources. I read "The Twelve Caesars" and haven't found much describing her from what I remember.

Really interested in this.

Say the Mongol emperor had an urgent message to be delivered from Karakorum to Persia, how long would it take for a horseback rider to reach?

I'm watching "The War by Ken Burns" and it made me wonder if any enemy fighters ever got shot down by any of the gunners on the bombers.

I understand how unorthodox Germany's attack that winter was and that nobody expected it, but I'm not sure how an operation of that scale would've been missed by the allies if they were monitoring enemy communications

I originally asked this on r/askreddit and it was suggested that I ask over here. Thanks in advance!

I'd like to also ask if the north Koreans were worried about that when they took the ship, but I imagine that's pretty much unknowable

I understand that the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought Japan to its knees. But I've always been kind of hazy on what exactly brought Germany to its knees.

I'm watching World War II in color on Netflix. I'm on episode 9 where it talks about Stalin wanting to take over some satellite states. It was stated that his main reason for doing so was to provide a buffer between Russia and Germany. Is this true?

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To clarify, Aristotle lived between 384-322 BC but what year was it to him? I'm guessing everyone didn't just agree ok in about 300 years were going to start the calendar at 0.

Seeking a book from the perspective of a French planter during the colonial era of Vietnam. The closest I been able to learn about it is the brief section in the film "Indochine". Unfortunately, the actual era is not covered with any depth. There was a viable subculture pre WWII but I've yet to discover any works -fiction or non fiction - available. Perhaps someone here knows of something. TIA for any assistance.

Everyone knows of the horrors that went down in World War 2 such as the Holocaust in Germany and Unit 731 in China. But did these experiments result in any good at all in terms of science?

The question comes from a claim a friend made today, saying that historians discovered references among Native American tribes, where they believe that the "white man" returned when the European expansion started in the Americas. His point being that one or several groups of "white" people in the Americas were killed off or forced out before the continents were discovered by the Norse and southern Europeans.

I'm putting "white" in quotation marks to distinguish between Europeans.

I can't find any evidence or even mentions of this anywhere and I'm curious if the theory has any merit.

Thanks for any and all replies!