A friend recently recommended I read this book. Also recently, I started to see a lot of criticism around it here on reddit... I'm a bit out of the loop and was wondering what were some of the criticisms, and whether I should still buy and read it...

[Here's to hoping I'm in the right sub for this]

Given current events in the American presidential primaries, fascism has been on my mind as of late (see: Trump, Donald). I view it as a growing concern and am interested in knowing more about its roots and how it can take hold in a relatively advanced society, as it did in Germany.

I'm essentially looking for a book that covers its rise in Italy/Germany/Spain, and maybe has something to say about how it could take hold in America. Preferably, nothing too dry or expensive.

Thanks!

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How did anyone ever figure out that if you take a random plant and harvest it just right, dry it, and smoke it you will reap its glorious effect, or that if you take another random plant, pick its berries, pull out their seeds, roast said seeds, and steep them in water you will reap its glorious effects? Out of the billions of plants in the world how did they find out that these plants have clandestine properties that can be coaxed out?

I was doing some research on Nixon's visit to China and reading some of the meeting transcripts and I found out that apparently we gave them a pair of Musk Oxen, kind of like how they gave us Pandas. What happened to them? I can't find much about us even giving them on line.

I was taught in history class that the French attacked the English baggage train during the Battle of Agincourt and killed many young English boys. I can't seem to find much about this anywhere online so I was wondering if someone could shed some light on this.

When was the last .matrix printer made, and how useful was it compared to the early and mid ones?

And could there ever be, or has there ever been, a .matrix 3D printer? Would it be possible, even if as comical as a rotary mobile phone?

And was it at all jocular to begin with? The former seat of the Roman empire being compared to a knee-high with heels seems a little denigrating.

Any input or info would be really helpful, thank you in advance. :)

I have recently become extremely interested in the hero of two worlds, but I can't seem to pinpoint his personality/how he acted. I've had one site say he was rather arrogant and liked to show off his physical prowess, but another claim he was extremely humble and quiet. Yet just by looking at some quotes yet another site said, it almost seems as if he was funny/had a good sense of humor.

So I'm just wondering what he was like outside of what my textbook can tell me.

(Also, this is my first time posting on this subreddit, and I'm terribly sorry if I misinterpreted what questions were supposed to go on here).

I saw that the History channel was making a show on this topic, so my first instinct is to think bullshit, but was there any reasonable doubt that Hitler didn't commit suicide at the end of WWII?

All city states I seem to have heard of existed in Mesopotamia, the Greek World, Italy, and Germany. Were there ever city states in places like China, India, the New World?

When the US first joined the war, their planes were painted green. By the end of the war they didn't seem to bother with anything aside from serial numbers/ insignia, leaving the planes bare aluminum. What was the reason behind that?

Like, did people medieval Islamic nations also tend to have premarital sex, in contrast the the religious ideal?

I heard that Shakespeare made many new words in his writing. How was he able to do this with people still understanding his meaning?

Referring to any time period(s) that you can speak to. Though I am particularly interested in Tokugawa period Japan and more-or-less corresponding Qing dynasty China.