We all know through and through that Jesus is the most known and followed messiah in history and today. But were there any other ones that had a significant influence or following back then? In clarification I'm referring to the messiah of the the Old Testament.

As an aside I've always found it amusing that there are people who don't accept the Santorini explanation, not because they just think Plato made it all up to make a philosophical point (which is partially true regardless), but because they think the "ACTUAL Atlantis" is still out there. Some people can never be satisfied with something if it can actually exist.

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I find the whole story behind the evacuation of Pripyat very interesting and since it's the anniversary I'd like to know how life was like for the typical Pripyat working family that had to evacuate the minute after Chernobyl was confirmed to be melting down.

Does the modern, "hippie" appearance of Jesus predate the popularity of the shroud?

The reason I ask is that there's an autistic poster who keeps editing wiki articles about Berbers and turning the info to some kind of berbercentrism. Claiming them to be the original pharaohs of Egypt and go on to name many historical figures to be of Berbers as well, as far as Edith Piaf! So who are those Berbers? I never heard of them other than being nomads of the Sahara. Were they as he claim to be the foundation of every civilization, and kept their independent states for 6000 years? I'm just curious as I have little information about that particular group.

In 1988, Dr. Dre said on the NWA hit "Express Yourself" that he doesn't "smoke weed or sess, cause it's known to give a brother brain damage." However, in 1992, his first solo album, called The Chronic, was released, and from then on, the name Dre has associated with marijuana. How did his fans and the music press at the time react to this shift?

What were the factors that lead to this length?

After reading a few posts about the inaccuracy of many Western movies in regards to the shootouts that didn't happen, I'm curious as to the most accurate portrayal of life in the old West in film or TV.

Obviously the day-to-day would be quite mundane, so some drama is expected, but is there a movie or TV series that really nails a lot of the customs, dress, duties, and trial and tribulations of life in the 'Wild West'?

When Washington marched to Cambridge (I believe) to take command of the new 'Continental Army' in 1775, he would have amassed large numbers of militia and volunteers from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York along the way. When he arrived, roughly how many men would have been in his train NOT including those men (from new engand) that were already encamped and surrounding Boston?

I guess an additional question would be how large would the combined army then have been once he arrived?

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Whenever I read on the French Revolution, I always wonder whether it was a unified mass movement to topple the old order or if it was different groups fighting within themselves and fighting each other for control over France.

Basically I want to understand if it was a series of spontaneous movements or one mass movement with a united goal (either to overthrow monarchy or to have tax reform or whatever)

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Virgil, for example, once wrote this,

You, Roman, remember by your empire to rule the world’s peoples, for these will be your arts, to impose the practice of peace, to be sparing to the subjected, and to beat down the defiant.

And of course we are familiar with the notion of barbarians in the early empire: outside of the empire, people were less civilized and less sophisticated. Cicero believed that the wars waged by the empire "were waged on behalf of allies or to uphold our imperium and their conclusion was either moderate or no harsher than necessary."

In the Later Roman Empire (I don't know... from Constantine onward maybe? Perhaps until the advent of Islam), did the Romans still have this "center of the world" mindset?

In the later period the empire was Christianized, which it might seem to me there might have been a change in how they see the world and their civilization (did they develop the notion of cosmological center?). They also had the Sassanids at their border, which in the same time, I suppose, pose a direct threat to the claims that they are the "best civilization" (weren't the Persians well-regarded too?). In their garrison they also employed various German officers, the people who in the early period were thought as barbarian.

Did we still see the Later Romans think like Virgil or Cicero?

What percentage of the armenian population died and was such mass killings common in multi national empires during 19th-20th century?

Did Alexander's conquest change the level of influence (if any?) Was it anything like the Greek influence on the Romans?

I would have to assume that at its creation the talks were much more serious. When did it change into a time for our government representitives and actual comedians to roast the other representitives on stage during the dinner.

I read a long time ago that the motivation for funding Columbus' trip had to do with projections showing that at the contemporary conversion rate in Asia would have the Muslim population in the world outnumbering Christians by the time the world would end (which was projected then as somewhere around 1585), and that if Muslims outnumbered Christians then, the rapture would not go well.

Is there any truth to this, and where are good sources to corroborate or dispel the idea? In particular, is there a good trail to follow quantifying the influence that belief in a second coming influenced Spanish (or other European) politics at that time?

I'm a Brazilian student aspiring to be a historian soon and I'm always told that the Portuguese settlers in South America found tribal people, with little-to-no technological development, while the Spanish settlers found well-established empires and civilizations such as the Aztecs, the Mayans and the Incas. My question is: did tribes like the Tupinambás knew about Pachacuti? How far away did the influence of developed civilizations in pre-Columbian America went? Was there any sort of cultural domination? Thanks a lot!