Furthermore did the Russians try to convert the local native populations of Alaska and were any churches built during this time period?

Certain scholars claim that Zoroastrianism had an enormous impact on Judaism following the exile of the Jews in the 6th century BCE while others claim the opposite with Judaism influencing Zoroastrianism. If the former is a serious and a probable claim, why isn't it taken more serious in the field? The Gathas text, although quite different from the Avesta texts that emerged in the common era, still contains original and innovative interpretations of monotheism that clearly has a noticeable pattern in Abrahamic religions (Devil and Angels, resurrection, free will, praying 5 times a day specifically found in Islam and so on). Are there books written by respectable historians that expound on this hypothesis?

It seems to be a period in US history that is often ignored, but what I do know about it, such as reconstruction, populism, the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives, and Gilded Age-era political corruption, suggests it was an interesting time worth learning more about.

Hello. I am an orthodox christian and in my faith, don't know about other christian faiths, you should love and fear the god. I am trying to understand from where this thought is coming from? Who said first that you should be afraid of god?

P.S. hope it's still considered as a subject of history.

I understand people would notice a boy's voice was different than a man's, but it's quite a major step to conclude the best way to keep that voice is to castrate that boy. Were there any examples of boys choosing this life, or was this strictly decided by other parties?

What books can a layperson read to learn more about the daily life of castrati?

Currently, 70-80% of the world's Jewish people are Ashkenazi, and before the Holocaust this percentage was likely higher.

However, throughout the Middle Ages and up until the present, European Jews generally faced more harsh persecution than Jews in the Islamic states. One would think this would lead to a smaller Jewish population in continental Europe, but instead the Ashkenazi grew substantially larger than the communities in Spain and the Middle East. Why was this? Did the urban nature of medieval Mizrahi life encourage smaller families?

Is there any truth in the statement that native americans lived in harmony with nature? I remember watching documentaries about it where they said that some native tribes for example burned down forests to create grass fields for animals and that some tribes that died out died because famine struck them extremely hard and that said famine was so brutal because the natives had cut down the forests close to them. Did the native americans really live in harmony with nature or were they as wasteful as the rest of the world?

Did the Romans have maps or knowledge of Southern Africa/Northern Europe or what lay beyond Hadrian's wall? Edit - Around 100-300 AD at the height of the Empire.

Was it pure compassion ? ( as he was politician I doubt this was out of pure charity ! )

Do we know if the money that was sent came from the Sultan's personal coffers or from the Empire ?

The Kokoda Track battle, while very successful, employed some highly unconventional (and criticized) guerilla-style tactics to successfully repel a very large force. Despite the criticism faced by the Australians in doing so, did any of these tactics become employed later on, or turn into standard doctrine? Was guerilla fighting shunned by the Australian establishment? It was obviously a success, so how did this campaign inform the tactics of the Australian military going forward?

Did they function the same way the Schengen area/EU and you could live or work in any of the states or were they more closed of?

How where they affected by the reformation and inner HRE wars?

What were they like in the final years of the Empire compared to the start.

My only real sources on the Sengoku Period have been Extra History (which /r/badhistory taught me is quite terrible) and Akira Kurosawa films (please understand I only just got into the time period), and watching the latter implied Nobunaga was more open to Europeans. In Kagemusha he's shown drinking 'European wine', red wine that Ieyasu isn't used to. He is also shown being blessed by a priest, and the armour he wears is much closer to that of the Western knight than samurai. Is this accurate? Any information would be appreciated.

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My uncle brought up this question yesterday. His position was that it really made little sense for Germany to align with Japan given the distance separating the countries. He went on to suggest that if the US doesn't get involved, England very well may have fallen, causing the US to lose their main staging area for troops and supplies, most likely causing the US to utilize Africa. Also the US doesn't attack Normandy in that situation. The US also likely wouldn't have supplied arms to Russia, due to the neutrality pact signed between Japan and the Russians in 1941. So my question is why Germany would declare war on the US? Did the Germans just do it because of their ties to the Japanese?

I have been listening to the history of Rome podcast and have noticed that this seems to be a common occurrence. Was there a specific reason for this phenomenon?

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I've heard before that there are some differences in language between the two Koreas. I was wondering if this was the case between the two Germanys during the Cold War, as well.

I am in a class about Latin American Politics, and this book is on the reading list. There are a few events that I don't quite agree with the author on

1. The war of the triple alliance is mostly caused by the British being angry about Paraguay trying to avoid capitalism.

2. Panama is an entirely invented state to steal the canal

And so on. I do not wish to discredit a book that I do not fully understand, however, it reads more like propoganda than history to me.