Hey all, I'm in a ninth grade AP class currently. I'm not sure how I should structure the essay. The topic is - Identify and describe the causes and key events that led to the Gold and Salt Trade and the spread of the Black Death. Explain how each of these developments changed the course of history for the peoples that they impacted.

I know most, if not all of the information needed, but can someone help me out in forming an outline? Thanks :)

When did people first begiin to fear the idea that their driver might have had a pint or two at lunch.

Sorry if this isn't the right format for this question, but finding decent sources for this topic is providing surprisingly hard.

I'm about to begin volunteer tour guiding at a WWI museum, and this bit of information isn't in the training material I was given. I've been googling and reading with no success, and I'd really appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction so that I can give an informed answer if asked by a guest.

Stalin's Rivals must have been aware of Lenin's call to remove Stalin from the party. So despite Lenin's will not being published, why was he not kicked from the party, or removed from important roles?

I've just been revising my history AS Level and this really began to niggle me, so if anyone could enlighten me I'd appreciate it!

Edit: Sorry, this would be New York City circa 1943.

If he had lived longer(I honestly forget how old he was when he passed) how different would the Soviet Union have looked? Would he have handled the second world war differently, and what of the cold war after?

If he stayed would his heir be recognized and the island taken seriously?

An alternate question: After the Roman Empire fell, were the buildings continued on being used and for how long?

Bridges falling , death from the plague , babies falling from trees?

Tanks in WW1 are a different beast from the ones that were made in ww2. WW2 tanks are made for roads and uneven/difficult terrain but not for trenches. From the pictures/videos/etc I have seen, they mostly used obstacles to slow the tanks and concrete fortifications to stop them or route them to some areas. Digging large trenches was possible during the "phoney war" but they chose obstacles/fortifications instead. Why is that so?

I'm aware that there was an alliance during the American Revolution, and that event also inspired the French Revolution, but what about during the War of 1812, and beforehand? Where they still allies? Did Napoleon favour the Americans as allies of pushing the British?

I'm thinking specifically of Bolivar, for context. It seems to me that having someone like Bolivar travelling around, aiding revolutions is something fairly unique to Latin America. While other countries in Africa, for instance, would have leaders speaking about other revolutionary struggles, that's different from actually travelling to do something. Why did this happen in Latin America? What was different about colonialism in Latin America?