For as long as I can remember, I've known that Cleopatra was a female Egyptian Pharaoh. However, it's never been clear to me why she's studied so universally and stands out so much from the "noise" of history. What makes Cleopatra so special?

Here in Latin America, every once in a while we hear a quote from Churchill that goes like this:

"Don't let Argentina become a world power. It will drag along with her all of Latin America."

Suppousedly this was in Yalta, circa 1945. However I can't find the quote in english anywhere. Is this even true?

My friend just shared this story, and I think I remember reading something similar when I was young, but I could have been making it up.

I realize that the layman probably didn't have the schooling to do it in their heads, but would some of the roman centurions been able to? How about the scribes? Could Jesus have done the math?

I was wondering if there were any laws in southern states about how a slave was supposed to be treated? Could a slave owner be punished for beating or killing a slave or could the slave owner do whatever they wanted?

Just read a blurb about France granting Canadians a place at Vimy Ridge, forever. That was in 1922. Did advancing German armies in WWII ever purposely destroy monuments or memorials to allied soldiers? Did the allies ever do anything similar? I know stuff happens, in war, but I mean purposeful destruction.

or did the vikings store their shields on the side?

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction for some primary and secondary sources on the specialization of agriculture after the black death? Thank you!

The late Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, and the Leshan Giant Buddha in the Sichuan Province, are monolithic statues carved into sheer rock face. How would this have been achieved? What was the religious significance behind the placement of them?

I'm interested in what specifically the Semitic, Babylonian, Lydian, and Egyptian forms and ideas were, and how the Greeks synthesized these diverse ideas.

Alternatively, if the quote is inaccurate, I would still like to know the cultural forms and ideas of the above places, and why they weren't as influential as Nietzsche suggests.

I'm doing some research into that specific period in time but I was just wondering if there was like a general start point and end point to this period before one could say that Norman influence was no longer quite as powerful in that region.

Hungary and Romania both had large militaries and comparatively few casualties. How was the beleaguered USSR able to occupy those countries without a fight?

I was thinking how fast interim governments were setups, rules established, etc, and how each "new" country managed it.

Where did Roman citizens and soldiers go after the fall of Rome and the begging of the dark age?

In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act which, among other things, offered a path to citizenship to 3.2 million undocumented immigrants who entered the United States before 1982. The bill, also known as the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, originated and passed with bi-partisan support, receiving approximately 2/3 support in both chambers of Congress. Why did IRCA 1986 pass with such overwhelming support? Was there any significant populist or political opposition to law either before or after its passage? What was the long-term legacy of IRCA 1986? For example, did its successful passage result in the rise of anti-immigrant political pressure groups like Mark Kirkorian's Center for Immigration Studies or Dan Stein's Federation for American Immigration Reform? (i.e., did IRCA's passage lead to broad-based political movements similar to those after the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling?) Is the current populist backlash against legalizing America's undocumented immigrants partly the result of the IRCA 1986 amnesty? I'm especially interested in any scholarly article and book recommendations on the subject. Thank you for all your comments.

My book talks all about Romans persecuting Christians and not trusting them to basically saying that it became the religion of the Empire. Uhhh, you can't just jump to that. I'd like to know why and how it got there.

I had a course on this topic recently, and I am curious to know the answer to the above question. The short story I got during my course was that becoming Christian was a way to "rebel" for a Korean, against Japanese Shinto rule, under the colonization (1905/1910-1945).. What other reasons were there?

I have read up on the Teutonic Order and people claimed they were "Nordic". Yet, modern Germany is not counted among the Nordic countries. Is this because of Germany's location? Also is Germany ethnically Norse? Is there even a ethnicity of Nordic people or is that a term simply to describe Northern people? I understand that Germany and Scandinavia are both Germanic and worshiped similar God's back in the day. So us Germany in anyway Norse/Nordic?

So I saw a news article about Donald Trump talking about how General Pershing supposedly executed Muslims with 'bullets dipped in pigs blood' or being buried with pigs. Was this just standard Trump fare or did this actually happen in the war, and if it did, what were its results?