I was talking to someone who said they were treated quite well. He cited a abolitionists journal who went down south or something.

If not, what were his other reasons for getting the U.S. involved in WWI?

I'm almost done answering all the question in my study guide, this is the only one I couldn't answer

In The Philosophical Dictionary, what sort of religion and morality did Voltaire recommend? What did he say about how Jews and Christians had often behaved?

I'm thinking the religion was deism but am not sure. Also I have no idea what his views on Christians and Jews were.

Reading recommendations on the topic would be appreciated.

In the early modern period, the rapid expansion of army sizes drastically increased the number of men rulers needed to arm, usually with muskets; how were the actual guns manufactured before industrial technology and organization methods? Was a town gunsmith as ubiquitous as the town butcher or cooper or cobbler, or did you have large arms companies producing them in batches?

Is it true that the British continued to export food from Ireland for their own economic gain? Did this play into the hate that the Irish developed for the British?

I have heard that the Catholic Church helped Nazi escape to South America via the Ratline and helped them with hunting down Jews despite them having problems with the Nazis. Also wasn't one of the former popes was in Hitler's youth?

i looked it up a bit and found barely functional sites or just maps, then again, i could have just not searched well enough. Thanks!

Ps:books and other physical material are fair game too

i noticed 'preliminatory' instead of preliminary and for that i'm sorry.

A common truism bandied about with historical misconceptions about so called "ninja" is that it originates from black suited stagehands in Kabuki. But looking around for it online it appears that this only has root in the writings of one historian. How much veracity is there to this idea?

math, science, technology, bathing etc. etc

was that all introduced by Black Moors to Europeans?

Also why did the Bolsheviks not destroy the church even during Stalin's reign?

Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians and Romanians fought at Stalingrad, but most depictions of WW2 depict the conflict as Germany with some Italian help in the west, and Japan in the east. Why are the other three countries never mentioned?

I know elephants were used as walking archer towers, but weren't they used in direct combat? Was there some common tactic? Perhaps ramming elephants into ranks of men? And I mean elephants in any armies: carthaginian, Selucid, Indian etc...

I am aware of the dynastic narrative (the rejection of Adelaide) described by William of Tyre, but I was wondering if there was more to this than the issue of Baldwin I's bigamy. Was there an underlying political or economic conflict behind their conflict?

Long time lurker, first time poster to the sub. I've been doing some research and need someone who is versed in the history of England from the point of view of the Norman invasion of Byzantium. I'm specifically looking for information on families who may have been descended from Norman/Byzantine marriages that were part of the nobility of England. I have no idea where to start with this other than Helena, the daughter of Robert Guiscard and her marriage to Constantine VII. I'd like to know if they had descendants who moved back to England, or if there were other marriages like this involved in the nobility/royalty of England.

Edit: Wikipedia has a section on the ancestry of the current royal family that connects back to an Isaac II Angelos., but this appears to be of the wrong time period if looking at the Guiscard family. I've also found English coats of arms that bear the red crescent. According to most sources, this indicates a descent from Constantine. I'm still looking for perhaps a concise academic source.

Thanks!

Saw these two on the book list. I realize they are by completely different authors but if I was going to read one which would you recommend?

Bonus question, which book should I read for a view on Aztec theology/philosophy: "Aztec Thought and Culture" by Leon-Portilla or "Daily Life of The Aztecs" by Carrasco?