That about sums it up. Plenty of anecdotes about the Russian army raping its way to Berlin, but what was the result? How many half-Soviet babies popped out once the Allies triumphed? I'm unsure of how census data was taken back then, and whether said data would be complete enough to observe a trend such as this.

Edit: Simply put, what are the chances that a random male born in Germany today will have heritage that traces back to Russia/fmr USSR?

I've always been perplexed at how the bow managed to develop among Native American tribes, Europeans, and Far East peoples that would have not had contact. Is this true? If so how did this happen? Or am I missing something? Thanks!

I think they probably just sailed east from China or something and then got to the America and realized that this was America on the map and that if you keep going east you will get to "west".. But I want some more details, how did they know it was America when they got there, how did the maps spread those days? There was probably a different map to each nation and sailing empire but just really any information about maps and their spreading throughout the world will be great...

edit: I'm asking since I've heard that back in the 1500~ Portugal wanted to get to India by ships, they got Vasko de Gama to do it (actually Dias discovered the path to get there), anyways before Vasko de Gama they rejected Colombus of doing it, Colombus wanted to get to India by going west and Portugal didn't know that the Earth was round by this time, so it rejected Colombus of doing the job. So when did exactly we discovered that Earth is round, when did the theories started?

Logic says slavery but some textbooks say states rights and even mentions tariffs before slavery in some cases. Google has sites for all of these conclusions, but what really caused the civil war?

For example, we read 3702 as "three thousand seven hundred and two," and you can pretty much read off the digits from the spoken form. If the Romans would have written that number "MMMDCCII," then how would they have spoken it?

I want to make a full body Pict tattoo composition. But for now I lack of material which I could show to the tattoo artist. After few weeks of searching thru the interweb I decided to seek help in this place. Thank You all in advance for any help!

Like, a book that is nice for a newcomer. I don't want the book to be dumb, but i don't want it to expect me to be a scholar ;) An introduction perhaps.

With that said, i want it to contain as much of the history of the romans as possible

I know Wikipedia is good, but i want it in book form.

EDIT: Sorry if this is wrong sub for this and thanks in advance

EDIT 2: BOOK FORMAT. Kindle or physical does not matter

I always wondered where the verb "claudicar" in portuguese came from. It means "to limp" and several etymological explanations on the internet claim it comes from the latin "claudus" meaning "lame". These same websites also claim that the name "Claudius" comes from the same origin. Is it a coincidence that emperor Claudius was actually limp, or was he named because of his infirmity?

Did the Democrats have a plan for the large population they intended to seize when securing modern America's southwest? The main point for opposing the start of the Mexican American War by Whigs was the "Spot Resolution", but I haven't found any arguments by nativists advocating against the war because of the large influx of Roman Catholic Hispanics. Was this a concern for the Polk administration?

Since the pyramids used to be covered with polished limestone and the internal structure wasn't visible, why didn't they use smaller blocks that could be handled more easily?

Hello. I was wondering if you people knew of any free primary source databases that are focused on the 19th century. The sources can be anything from census data to newspapers and anything in between. Anything would be appreciated. Thank you!

Basically my question is this: All throughout history the British Isles were the seat of the British Empire...run by an English King. American Colonists before the revolution considered themselves Englishmen...but referred to Redcoats as British (and Regulars, I know). Today, Elizabeth is the Queen of England....and David Cameron is the Prime Minister of Britain. It's always been English royalty...and we have British Columbia in Canada.

So at what point did the two terms become synonymous in general vernacular?