How did the entire population of Israel manage to successfully adopt a reconstructed language as its primary operating language?

(Posting this again since it got zero replies last time)

In the Indian subcontinent, pork is a rarely found meat on menus with some notable exceptions (Goa, Kerala, Coorg, Naga, Sikkimese as well as assorted Christian communities across the region). Hindus have no specific religious restrictions against pork, yet the dominant meats are chicken, goat/sheep and seafood. However in SE Asia, pork is a staple meat even in areas (Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Bali) which share the same rough climatic conditions as the subcontinent (and hence similar issues with food handling and safety and disease). One popular explanation is that pigs in the subcontinent are not raised for food; they are only ever seen rooting around in garbage and muck in towns and villages, thus contributing to pork's image as "dirty". But this does not explain why pigs were not raised for food in the first place.

How did this situation come about? Was there a cultural taboo against pork in the region that existed/exists independent of the Islamic taboo? Or is there something more complex at play here?

Was Hitler aware of Röhm's sexuality?

Big cities being mainly German-speaking (or Polish/Italian in the cases of Lviv and Trieste) regardless of the language spoken in the surrounding countryside seems to have been the rule rather than the exception until the middle of the 19th century. How did this come to happen?

How did Budapest, for instance, manage to retain a German-speaking majority throughout hundreds of years of being surrounded by vast numbers of Hungarian speakers in the countryside? Were Hungarian speakers disallowed from moving to the city, or did they have to start speaking German if they moved to Budapest in order to get a job or do business?

And how did this come to be in the first place? Did the natives of Budapest and other cities slowly start speaking German over the centuries due to influence from German Austria, or did German-speaking Austrians move to Budapest and displaced the Hungarian speakers? (And in that case, why did they leave?)

I've not studied the American Revolution much beyond what they taught in English schooling, but one thing that's always stuck out is how fierce the Americans were about self-representation. Up until India the Continental Congress was probably the biggest "fuk u lol" we faced as an empire.

Behind the warcrying though, I don't know what their aims were. Did the colonials want a seat in parliament? Did they want a mutual alliance of nations? Did they want the king's ear on tariff issues?

Before the question of open revolt came up, what form did American desires take and who were they directed at?

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Do most historians downplay the possibilityof Pre-Colombian settlers from Europe and Asia in the Americas (outside of Vikings in Vinland and L'Anse Aux Meadows)? Or is it just something isn't heard very often in mainstream media?

Edit: i am genuinely interested. I double majored and one major was poli sci. I also have a job where i forecast based on the past. The book challeneged my previous thinking. His primary critique was of conventional economics/economists but he also brought history/historians into it. Curious to know what others think?

I received a grant to do an undergraduate research project in history, and I've been asked to give a talk next week on my topic. I've been researching women in Classical Athens*, and I've been asked as part of my presentation to include a statement about why I find my research valuable. I'm at a loss in this regard. I have my reasons as a history student, my own reasons for being interested in my topic. But I'm wondering if anyone else might be able to offer me some insight, some sort of perspective I'm missing. I can't make the same sort of claims of inheritance that I might if I were talking about women in American history. Because of the distance in time and space between us and Ancient Athenians, I'm struggling. Any advice is much appreciated.

*[more specifically their role in religious ritual and what sort of spaces these rituals might have created for women to exert political influence and autonomy.]

I read theories, that it was because some of them joined the White Army, because the Soviets wanted the ethincaly terminated them, but what is true? Thanks in advance!

Hey AskHistorians, I grew up a big fan of the comic book series Asterix and Obelix and I am now doing a research project on La Tène archaeology (as I have read Gallic archaeology is encompassed in the La Tène material culture). I'm wondering if there are any particularly interesting facets of the culture which the amateur observer may overlook? Thank you for reading, I appreciate all responses.

Looking for sources on trying to move or kill the prisoners, etc .

I'm wondering what specific terms of independence were met, what actually changed in the Indian government at the time, and what policies were immediately implemented.

In AP World history, we've been spending a lot of time on classical Chinese and Indian philosophy and religion. While Hinduism obviously has a lot of cosmic and strange mythology, it seems like it has core philosophical concepts that are very complex, while Greek religion doesn't seem to have core philosophical concepts of this kind.

In Hinduism, it appears so far that the ultimate goal was to realize that we are not separate from the rest of the universe but are one with it, and through this realization assimilate with the Brahman, for example. Greece seemed to be a very intellectually advanced classical civilization, but based on my knowledge of Greek religion there weren't any core philosophical concepts like in Hinduism or Buddhism. It seems that all I've heard of Greek religion is its stories and mythology.

So are there any core philosophical ideas behind Greek religion like there appear to be in Hinduism and Buddhism and other old religions? Am I just so used to hearing about Greek myth here in the West that I don't think much of it? Is there philosophy to their religion that I and other laymen just haven't heard about yet? I just don't understand why Greek religion seems to be solely myth based when other religions seemed to have big philosophical ideas behind them.

I'm planning on asking my AP World teacher this, but I just wanted to ask here over the weekend because it feels like a stupid question.

There's always this common reference in some TV shows but is it really possible?