I know that large region of Eurasia had some indigenous peoples and a few nomadic tribes, but did the early Russians (or any Eastern European civilization for that matter) explore the land east of the Ural Mountains all the way to the coast during or before the Medieval ages?

When I think about the Soviet union in ths 70s, I think about the infamously long food lines and ration cards. However, how could this situation happen when the Soviet union had Ukraine and southern Russia - huge breadbaskets. I'm sorry if my understanding is innacurate - I don't know a lot about the subject.

Would they typically be pianolas and who would sell and maintain them in towns with few other faculties?

All games. I always wondered. Also if you could use specific examples that would be great.

And how accurate do we generally consider them to be?

From what I understand, the Gracchi argued that successful Roman military conquest had resulted in an influx of slave labor, which in turn allowed the patricians to consolidate and expand their land holdings in Italy, driving the peasantry into the cities and swelling population of urban poor. Land redistribution and the introduction of the grain dole were meant to alleviate this. Do modern historians agree with this explanation? Or do they see other causes as being the primary drivers of urbanization?

Would a Slavic pagan in Pomerania be better-off under Catholic German rule than a Jewish German would be? Were Jews treated just as poorly as polytheists? Was there any tradition in German and Eastern Europe at all resembling the Islamic concept of Dhimmi?

Basically what the question asks, lots of people where or have camp items today, but when did it start to separate from military and become more of a fashion ststement?

I wonder what would have been the result of that conflict.

For example, during British imperialism, are there any sources that show that the Indians and Chinese thought of the British as more attractive than their own? Or are there any sources throughout history that show that native populations who first encountered whites thought of them as beautiful? If I recall correctly, I remember something about how some native americans thought of the Spaniards as gods when they first encountered them. If that's true, was it because they saw whites as instantly more attractive? Or I remember that the Ottomans took hold of Eastern Europeans. Was it because they saw the Europeans as more attractive?

P.S - The reason I ask this is because there have been many debates on whether whites are inherently the most attractive race, or whether it's the result of centuries of colonization, imperialism, and in the new age, Western advertisement. Many minorities in Western countries often feel that whites are more attractive, but many factors present in Western countries could have contributed to their ideas of attractiveness. Answers will help give me insight on whether whites are considered attractive today simply because of Western pervasiveness, or whether they are truly considered attractive by non-whites in general. In case you're wondering, I'm a black male.

I've noticed that a lot of monarchs weren't born in the country that they ended up ruling in. Was this really common, and how did the people in their countries feel about having a foreign ruler? For example, King George I and King George II of Britain were both born in Hannover and didn't speak English as their first language.

I went to the Zeppelin museum on lake Konstanz today and went in a reconstruction of the Hindenburg. One of the exhibits stated that the dining room used Bauhaus designs. But there's a lot of stuff on how the Zeppelin programming was essentially controlled by the Nazis and used for propaganda purposes - so why would they use Bauhaus designs, considered degenerate by the regime? Thanks!

Just curious, as far as I know they weren't so destructive to other cultures they occupied/puppet-ed after the war.

I feel as though it wouldn't have been too uncommon for a ship to be lost in a storm in the days of ships of the line and such. But what was the last time a ship was lost to the sea? What are the most important factors that makes ships so much mroe survivable to storms nowadays?