in the period before the raising of troops and the firing on Fort Sumter how was succession advocated for to your average person? how where dissenters dealt with as well?

I'm just curious. I checked the FAQ and there wasn't an entry yet so here I am.

Japanese light novels, manga, visual novels and anime (which also seems to closely integrate serial and feature length works) seem to adapt/spin-off each other quite frequently while also maintaining a relatively consistent aesthetic style. Meanwhile American media that crosses the genre barrier from book to movie, comic to tv, video game to anything, or (shudder) movie to book can vary wildly in interpretation and get stuck in development hell for years.

How did the disparate Japanese mediums/industries become so co-dependent? Do they share some common artistic origin? Are they all dominated by the same corporations? Are Japanese intellectual property laws somehow structured in a way that promotes this synergy?

Anabaptists in the 16th century were persecuted by both Protestants and Catholics. In 1529, at the Diet of Speyer, the Anabaptist Mandate reanimated the old Codex Justinianus, which declared that anyone who rejected infant baptism would be put to death. Was it the doctrine that was so taboo? Or was it the activities of the people who believed it which tainted the doctrine by association?

I was talking about Hannibal with my father and he said that African elephants couldn't be tamed. Did Hannibal's elephants come all the way from india or were they in fact African?

I have never heard of one whit of actual archeological evidence being brought up in support of the idea that ancient peoples and early civilizations were egalitarian, matriarchal, pacifistic, communistic and generally utopian and yet these ideas seem quite common in the popular literature. It's especially galling because contemporary hunter-gatherers are hardly any of those things and early writings record plenty of warfare, inequality and greed.

Is there any evidence for these ideas, or have people just been projecting their biases and fantasies on the past?

From what I've read of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, I know that the British military used the Canadian Corps for Shock Troops.

Were there any other Shock Troops that the British used, and if there were, what nationality were they? If none of them were actually British, why did the British military almost exclusively use colonial forces for Shock Troops?

I am looking for an English translation of the Ebers papyrus specifically, but I am doing a project on pain and opiates and I'd like to get as many primary ancient sources as possible. Side by side original with translations if possible. Thanks for your help!

Hello! I'm currently studying the Sino-Soviet split, and I was a little confused as to what effect the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 had on Sino-Soviet relations. I know Mao feared the loosening grip the Soviet Union seemed to have on its satellite states after de-Stalinisation, but after Khrushchev's quick and swift dealing with the Hungarian Uprising, shouldn't that have comforted Mao in some way? Why did the two countries keep dividing? Was it inevitable, or did the Hungarian Uprising change things?

Im not well versed in world history and specially not in history of spain but i dont remember spain being that much involved in these wars.

So if the rest of europe went trough so much devastation why didnt spain experience a boom in ecenomy/power? They were colonial empire they should have resources to set up a big economy. Germany got crashed in two world wars and had almost zero colonies but are now one of the leading world economies and definetly the biggest in europe.

turks ruled an astonishing part of the muslim land from the the middle ages to the late modern period .

the ottomans ? turks ,obviously .

the dynasties that ruled the middle east just prior to the ottoman conquests ? mostly turks , like the Mamluk and zengid dynasties .

the dynasties that ruled muslim persia ? again , mostly turks : the timurid , afsharid, qajar etc....

india ? mostly turks too : Slave dyansty , tughlaq , sayyid , mughal etc...

how did they manage to gain so much control despite being an invisible minority in all those lands ?