This has been talked about to death but I searched and searched and couldn't quite find a satisfactory answer to this question. I apologize if there is one and I missed it.

It seems relatively widely agreed upon by historians that Versailles was not actually particularly harsh. The "War Guilt Clause" is a myth, the reparations were justifiable and had Germany not run their economy so far through the ground they would have been able to pay them, and reducing their army and navy was a decent way to try to avoid another aggressive war. The treaty involved the liberation and self-determination of many new countries, etc etc. If anything people at the time saw it as far too lenient. Compared to, say, Brest-Litovsk, Versailles was practically benevolent.

So why is it still taught as being a horrible, harsh, cruel injustice forced upon innocent little Germany, so absurdly unfair that they couldn't help but try to conquer Europe again? Am I wrong in believing it not to be harsh? Has Nazi propoganda been so effective that it sticks around even today (as it certainly does for some things, see tanks re: quality)?

Tales are often told of the 'genocide' of native Americans with the great westward expansion of the US. While a massive part of the native population had perished from old-world diseases, the land was hardly unoccupied. Northern Asia experienced no similar epidemics, yet Russia managed to close the steppe highway and expand its territory to China within a single century. What were the treatment of the indigenous 'Siberian' peoples, the turks, tartars, mongols and others ? Are there any stories of cultural and physical annihilation similar to that of the Native Americans ?

Basically they go to a new land and the king orders the boat to be burned putting them in a sink ot swim position

Apologies for the poor English, hope the question is still understandable

It would also be interesting to know about different ways commanders of all ranks behaved in combat.

e.g.

Fighting like everyone else plus shouting orders?

Fighting with a special guard; maybe as a driving battle factor?

Staying just behind the first ranks and observing/reacting?

Leading a special reserve to special situations?

At the very front of formations?

At the center of formations?

Just fighting? Just commanding? Just accompanying troops to places but then falling back before enemy contact?

I'm interested in how we discover the proper pronunciation of words from dead languages. For example, how did we discover or "figure out" Caesar is pronounced with with a hard C rather than a soft C? Should I post this in linguistics?

Of course there's the classic pub fish and chips, but for the most part, I don't think of seafood dishes when I think of the signature cuisine of Great Britain and Ireland. With such ready access to the sea, why aren't they more known for consuming its bounties?

In the year 1849 French author Gustave Flaubert went up the Nile on a Falucca sailing ship. He observed that 8 out of 10 sailors were missing their right index finger.

Does anyone know more about this odd piece of trivia? I'm dying to learn why these sailors were missing their fingers but have been told (and confirmed) that I will not be able to find further info on the internet. Thanks!

The classic "frisbee" like throw is almost a trope in media but I've literally never heard of someone doing this outside of TV/movies so was this ever a real practice?

I was talking with one of my friends who lives in Japan the other day. He swears up and down that the US was bombing Japan before Pearl Harbor and that Pearl Harbor was in retaliation to this. The reason the US doesn't hear of this becaise of censoring. Is he correct or is he just full of shit?

Is there an official record for the number of German Nationals who served in the Allied armies in WW2? I'm not talking about people of German descent but those born in Germany and fled to the one of the major allied countries. It's easy to find the number of foreign nationals from conquered allied nations and that got me to thinking about German Nationals. Any Google search gives information about other topics that just happen to include my search keywords.

For example, I've often heard it said that Mao Zedong studied Collin's tactics, is this true? Can we see any influence on later revolutionary movements and figures?

Thanks.

im trying to understand a bit more deeply about the mexican revolution and can seem to find that easily online documents about that. does anyone recomend me a site?

More specifically, how much was Greek culture adopted by the native elites in Alexander's successor kingdoms? I haven't found a scholarly consensus on this yet, and am not sure which sources to start looking in...