This idea is nowhere to be found in early christianity (it's not in the gospels nor the letters), but today the catholic church seems to accept this idea as part of their faith

How did it arise and when did it become "official"?

I recently finished reading The Commentaries by Caesar and there was something odd that struck me. Multiple times in the book Caesar mentions different tribes of Gauls and Celts harvesting, storing and eating corn. From what I understand corn/maize came from the new world after the Colombian exchange. So my question is, was there an ancient type of corn that I don’t know about? Or was this a strange translation of some other ancient grain?

When did people start visiting places as tourists wanting to see historical ruins?

Some reading advice on this topic would be great as well, having a hard time finding stuff that particularly tries to link the two events!

Basically I hear this number being thrown around alot that throughout human history approximately 110 Billion individuals have lived. And I was, in all honesty, too lazy to do a proper background check on it so it may just be a piece of misinformation that spread, similar to the "~50% of all humans ever died of Malaria" nonsense. So if that’s the case feel free to enlighten me :) However if’s infact true, I just wonder how the math works out? I know that the Black Plague killed like a third of all humanity with "just" 25 million deaths. That was around 1350 so the population back then is rather negligible in the bigger picture of 110B and since I don’t think before there had been any really significant decreases in human population (in absolute numbers) all the generations having lived before are rather negligible as well. As far as I know human popoluation only ever began rapidly increasing in the 20th century. Considering that my personal, unscientific estimates would’ve put the number at maybe 15-20 Billion instead of 110. so, incase I‘m wrong, can you explain to me why? What did I not take into account

Everyone knows about what was going on in Europe and Asia. Why isn’t anyone talking about what was happening in africa in the middle ages?

I would imagine the burden of killing of countless civilians would have weighed heavily on the crew even with the objective of ending a war quickly. Could any of the crew members sit it out or did they face punishment if they refused the orders?

P.S. I'm aware Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras, and Herodotus weren’t from Athens, but they were drawn to whatever voodoo the Athenians cooked up.

So what was the voodoo? Why did it happen, and why have such concentrations of brilliance occurred so rarely in the history of civilization?

Our atmosphere has low enough pressure and levels of deuterium that nuclear fission in air doesn’t cause hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium. If things were a bit different, a nuclear explosion might have caught our atmosphere on fire.

So what was the debate like? Who wad debating the issue? Were there a lot of concerned scientists?

"They ate them" seems sort of obvious on the face of it, but I guess I'm trying to get a sense of how big a deal locusts swarms were to non-agricultural peoples in history. I know they've been a problem since before Biblical times in places like Egypt, but I can't find anything about how much a locust swarm might impact, say, the huge percentage of people during the "early state building" period who didn't live in Mesopotamia. Was it even an issue for them? Was it as devastating to them as it would have been to river valley farmers?

I am talking about him being a part of the human rights commission while at the same time forcing people to sell their homes. What was it that made even government authority so trusting of him when there were already some red flags?

I picked the three books and films that focus mostly on the main characters and their trauma: Slaughterhouse-five, First Blood and American Sniper. I'm exploring how the war veterans were depicted in the films, how their PTSD and other illnesses were portrayed and how these adaptations fit the narratives of their time. I only scratched the surface on how the vets were accepted in the US society after coming back from WWII, Vietnam and Iraq respectively, so I'd like to ask if there are any recommendations for reading on this. I'm asking about literature on war trauma, vets' experience when coming back to civilian life, people's attitude towards them, etc. Your help will be greatly appreciated!

I saw an image of the world's most prolific serial killers and 3 of the top 5 were Colombian. It got me thinking about how often you hear about instability/crime syndicates/danger when it comes to Colombia. What caused it to become this way?

Revolutionary students are a traditional power base for radicals throughout history so I was looking into what students were up to in Paris during the Revolution. However, I discovered that the University was closed by the National Convention in 1793 and was not replaced by another institution until Napoleon came to power. Why? Promoting education seems like it would be in line with revolutionary ideals. Also, thirteen years seems like a long time to go with to formal institute of higher learning. What is the story behind their decision and what was France’s education system like during the Revolution?

6 million, everyone knows that number. 6 million jews were killed – but what about all of those POW's and civilians? Wikipedia tells me 11 people were killed one way or another, aside from the 6 million jews. Where can I read up on this?