My impression is that the Wermacht was an extremely effective fighting force in its day, particularly before a string of military disasters starting in the winter of 1941. Did the/how did the partisans who fought unconventional wars and occasionally honest to god pitched battles with them from Greece to the Baltic ever accomplish anything meaningful in the face of such a force.

It seems that nobles were more powerful in the earlier middle ages. Was this due to the fact that there were less people in general, as well as less people claiming 'noble lineage'?

If every noble had 3 or 4 children each generation, did each generation become less wealthy and was it possible for them to lose all privileges and rank/status as a result of this over time?

And why is it bigger than my flat in London.

There's a narrative about Lacedaemon and its rise and eventual fall due to the upper class being too dependant on perioikoi and helots, especially since it suffered from slave uprisings. But what happened to the population of the city and the city itself in the centuries following its decline and leading up to modern Sparti's founding in 1834?

interested to know how the german army managed to defeat the combined british and french army so quickly

I'm aware of its general history, from Ottoman to Yugoslav rule and now independence, but what event(s) led Croatia to dominate shoreline of the Adriatic Sea relative to Bosnia?

I was playing the "very" historically accurate game Age of Empire 2 and while playing the campaign of a man named Fredrick Barborssa one of the maps entails defeating the "antipope" who is this ? Is the antipope like the arch enemy of the Pope and why would Barborssa fight him. Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Seems practical enough... but apparently there is a backstory that TLDR.

Germany had a wall and Russia (just Russia). Japan lost its army and "lands" and was nuked but I never heard what punishments Italy had after the war or Anything.

Why was it Italy got off with just the leader being humiliated and written off while Japan and Germany gets so much hate and propaganda?

In medieval or classical times were there ever groups of scholars set out to research old civilizations or abandoned cities. Similar to what modern archaeologists do?

Over in r/history I saw a claim that Russian fighters were engaging us bombers over Europe towards the end of the war. This seems like something that would have been a big deal and I had never heard anything about it so I wanted to check with some more reliable sources on this. Is there any truth to this? Or some fog of war friendly fire incidents that could have spawned the rumor?

Having just found out that the Guiterra/Minaj song sampled a Negro spiritual called "Rosie", I started wondering about whether the Chinese work gangs had any similar type of bonding/rhythm keeping/time passing songs.

Was the Negro "phenomenon" a culturally exclusive one, or do almost all cultures do this (I think it's the latter, but would love to hear other cultures' versions).

I know in Armenian culture, there are a vast quantity of "field songs" - sung by the farmers during particular seasons (plowing, planting, harvesting, etc.).

Thanks in advance!

This question has always interested me, was Germany's march into Russia the biggest axis mistake? Or were there others that were bigger?

Thanks!

As my understanding dogs have a unusual position in western society (I'm asian). I've read somewhere that dog only become "man's best friend" culturally in the 19th century. During that period people start breeding pet dogs and sell them like products so the merchants come up with this "man's best friend" idea. Is it true? How did dogs become man's best friend in western culture?