Several times throughout several stories a purple robe is used to symbolize royalty or kingship of some sort. I for one see it a lot in christianity. Jesus often is portrayed in white, but sometimes with a purple sash. Sometimes the cross is portrayed with a purple cloth draped on it. Julius Caeser is often portrayed wearing purple robes, or with a purple sash, etc. etc. you get the idea, Is it just a trend that caught on? And if so, who "started" this trend? Or is it a more logical explanation like maybe that purple dye is the most expensive and rare dye so Rulers often wanted it to display their wealth.

In the game Crusader Kings II, playing as one of the medieval pagan factions gives you the ahistorical option of reforming their religion into a more oraginised and centralised verion, in order to counteract the growing influence of Christianity/Islam.

While I know that this is just entertaining fiction, are there any examples at all of something similar happening in real life? Are there any historical examples of pagans taking a vague set of folk beliefs and turning them into a proper church, or something like it? If so, what was the imperative to do so?

I'm curious as to whether or not people used to imagine what space was like or wonder what was up there. Considering people didn't even know the world was round for some time, it would be interesting to know what kind of misconceptions there were about the universe.

What led to this stark divide?

Is it truth that Kuomintang did majority of the fighting against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War? There are discussion online that talks about how CCP did not contribute its forces as much as the KMT during the struggle.

I've read recently that Ireland and Scotland don't have much as far as militaries. How were they not consumed by the British Empire?

Why didn't China have a Christianity fuelled rebellion?

I have been researching the decline of scientific racism, and I have found a lot of information on both the academic debunking of scientific racism through people like Franz Boas and the legal rejection/overturning of racist legislation. I am having a really hard time, however, finding information on popular opinion and what caused it to shift--when and how did it become not okay for the average American to say they believe someone is biologically inferior because of their race? What turned people away from scientific racism and towards cultural or other more subtle forms of racism? A few the books I've looked at (The Myth of Race and Sex, Race, and Science, for example) have mentioned the aftermath of the holocaust as something that prompted Americans to reject eugenics, but they haven't gone in to depth and I suspect that there were other factors as well. Can anyone point me to some sources addressing the shift in popular opinion? Thanks!!

Did they ever try to create concentration camps, gas chambers, mass graves, or anything like that in Africa with the Africans?

I mean large scale wars, so less defined conflicts like The Troubles (Northern Ireland) dont count. Further questions:

• Which countries should we define as English speaking? Obviously we can include countries like Jamaica or New Zealand, but what about countries where other languages are spoken too, like Singapore, India or Nigeria?
• (Assuming there haven't been any wars for a while) Why is this?
• (Assuming there haven't been any wars for a while) Is the same true for other languages, for example French speaking countries?