Also, if there is any info you could share about some of the ins and outs of life as a sailor across time, say in ancient Greece and ww1, I'd be interested to hear it.

As a follow-up, how clearly defined was the Roman Empire's own understanding of its borders?

I am aware that they had excellent pikemen, but literally every other nation before them had spear troops too. Were the Swiss pikemen capable of aggressive maneuvers that other spearmen couldn't do? I heard somewhere that their pike divisions were often mixed with Zweihanders, how did this work? In what major battles did Swiss troops prove invaluable?

who was the first king to go on crusade, and what impact did it have on the rest of christian europe and how was it viewed? did any other european king get "jealous"

It seems like Japan was exceptional in the way it sought to rapidly industrialize and adopt western values. Was this actually the case? If so, what made Japanese culture capable of doing so while so many other native cultures remained insular up until colonization?

The world has gotten a lot more understanding, but all up until the 1980s or so, virtually the whole world had mob mentality, hit kids in school, had many more taboos etc... than now.

Reading up on a few philosophies of the past, I'm puzzled as to how our world didn't progress sooner. In Greece, they had democratic societies B.C.E. In historical Scandinavia and parts of Eastern Europe, women were given a higher place in society. In the ancient Greece and Middle East, they had remarkable mathematicians. Even the Age Of Enlightenment sparked a more understanding mentality from the public of Western Europe.

How is it that it took us all up until the late 1800s/early 1900s to start developing technology? How is it that it took us all up until now (in some places of the world) to become a lot more understanding to social issues and minimize taboos, if throughout history, there were many examples of societies who were, at times, more progressive than parts of our modern world?

I don't know if this is the place to post this, but I am trying to get published but I have no idea where to start. I have written an article about the public school curricula under the Nazis, and I have a few journals picked out, but each have extremely specific formatting rules (which is fine), but I just don't know how this whole process works. For instance, they want the authors address and phone number, but it won't be published...does this mean I put that info on the title page? Or just in the submission? It is also a blind peer review, so I need my name on one copy, but not the other? Any help with this?

Finland, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries faced a long period of Russification, but their languages are still the majority in their countries. Finland was also ruled by Sweden and Norway was ruled by Denmark for a long period, and only a minority speak Swedish in Finland and no one speak Danish in Norway (except Danes living abroad). Compared to this Irish fared rather badly, with most people in Ireland now speaking English (or a dialect of it to be precise) as their main language. Why was the language shift in Ireland so much more dramatic than in the other regions facing similar forms of cultural assimilation?

Some say it's racist and others say it isn't. What's the real reason?

I was dicussing with a co-worker about it and was curious to actually know if their was any information avaliable. If they did eat them, are Neanderthals similar enough to us to it would have a taboo feel to it?

Edit: I don't mean eating them to extinction either, I meant just on occassions where food might have been scarce.

What happened to the Russians in Alaska after the US bought the territory? Did they go back to Russia? Did they stay in Alaska? Were there a very minimal amount of Russians in the territory?

At some point the consensus, in certain circles, about the civil war went from "slavery is awesome" to "this had nothing to do with slavery". Where did this idea come from and when?

I'm not American. It doesn't make sense to me.