Did Rome always refer to itself as Rome? What were the names it called itself throughout history?

What happened to Mithraism and Greco-Roman polytheism during the Constantinian shift?

I have seen in the news lately that Egypt and Israel are digging water filled trenches, moats, to stop the digging of tunnels. I had assumed that medieval moats were to distance siege engines; were they actually to prevent tunnels?

Did the Canadian government tolerate this influx of people, or were they resistant? Did the average Canadian citizen have a problem with what amounted to illegal aliens entering their country?

Reports from the time had an American Invasion resulting in the loss of ~41,000 American lives, while the bombs produced 200,000 deaths. I know the casualty numbers greatly favored the US in the War in the Pacific, but is it possible that the bombing saved Japanese lives?

When was it decided that the European war of 1914-1918 would be known as World War 1? Same for WW2?

I was watching a youtube video about the horrific experiments at Unit 731 in the 1930s. They said that Japan was experimenting on people to learn how to fight the U.S. in a war. Why would they feel they needed to go to war against the U.S. at that time?

As the Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire) began to fewer influence in Italy, the Italians stopped viewing themselves as the Roman people and adopted a Italian identity. Did this have to do with the morphing of the Latin language into Italian or could this have been a result of a more regional identity? I always found it funny that while Greeks and other people part of the Byzantine Empire still considered (and rightfully so) themselves as Romans, while the Italians no longer identified as Romans.

Throughout his life as a wanted man, was he ever nearly caught?

I always thought that the Slavs were targeted for extermination as part of the Nazi Final Solution. However, I have a friend who claims that only the Jews and Roma people were targeted for extermination, whereas the only Slavs interned in concentration camps were kept there as Communists, partisan fighters, homosexuals, or Jews who happened to be Slavs, not because they were Slavs in and of themselves. Also, he claims that only Jews were sent to death camps, which are distinct from concentrations camps (I think?), while Slavs were sent to concentration camps. Just doing some fact checking. Thanks.

Belgium refusing to give access to the Germans, later when invaded destroying roads and railroads to prevent German advance into France, also getting Britain into the war and so on made WW1, well, WW1. A prolonged, bloody, two fronted war with Russia, France and Britain for Germany.

But what I fail to understand is, why go to all this trouble? Why didn't Belgium just allow the Germans to move through their lands and use their railroads for a few days? Why start a conflict you know for a fact will destroy your country? Cost the lives of your people? The infrastructure of roads and railroads? What was the point of this? Why not just keep your head down and let the big boys fight?

Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't really find anything.

Basically the question explains it. I know that we don't really know what he wanted, but did he do or say anything that we can analyse and say with some degree of certainty whether or not that he wanted to be rex?

Cheers for the help

To clarify, I'm taking a class wherein we are learning mostly of the political and military progression of the Athenians, but Thucydides' text is very difficult to digest. Are there any good analyses of Thucydides either with or without context from other historians of the time?

The Berlin conference kicked off the scramble for Africa which involved all major European powers.

In the 1880's the USA was large economy and a world power. The USA had strong ties with Liberia as well.

Was there any U.S. Involvement with the Berlin conference? If so, what was it?

Recently a German populist said (in context of Frontex effectiveness) that during the first world war the Royal navy managed to completely blockade Germany and not one ship slipped through. He also mentioned that they had no radar and until 1916 no aerial reconnaissance.

How accurate is this statement? I know submarines were able to get around the blockade and some auxiliaries and merchant raiders broke through. Also airships were used for reconnaissance. So how effective was the blockade and how was this achieved?

Wouldn't their own citizens want to distance themselves from anything English?