It seems like that is a prime reason to the decline in the number of followers.

What about Manichaeism?

I'm trying to start an academic project on studying how frontiers evolve in the abstract to make predictions about how the internet will evolve in the future, but I am having difficulty finding resources that study how frontiers change over time in the abstract or by comparing multiple frontiers. Most of what I find is only about the historical change of a single frontier, rooting those changes in study of that particular frontier's social content and context. Does anyone know of good research materials that are tilted towards studying how frontiers evolve more abstractly? No rush; I'm just doing this project on my own, its not for a class or anything. Thank you in advance.

what was the point of this war for the westerners? why did the europeans attacked turkey knowing they wouldnt get anything? i can understand greece and armenia but what about the others? also even though turkey didnt fought properly they still gave our lands back and left us alone. why is that?

I've read that during ww2, the Soviets used to train dogs to destroy German tanks but that it went wrong for a variety of reasons (dogs don't like loud noises, were trained on Russian tanks, etc.) All of this sounds pretty apocryphal so I was wondering if this actually occurred and to what extent it's true.

And who were the first to call them that?

Regarding the US only, in school, they only teach about how it "started" and how it "finished", but if there is such a deficit in money it had to have gone somewhere. Did it spread to other countries, go into the pockets of the well off, or what?

Didn't both sides also justify their causes based off Washington and the rest of the founding fathers (like Jefferson)?

I was doing some reading on the collapse and most of the stuff I can find talks about Crete, Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia. Was there a similar collapse in East Asia and India? And what was going on in the Western Mediterranean?

Lenin died in 1924, and nowadays all the Soviet Memories are surrounded by the oppression of Stalin, with very little talk of Lenin. My question is, what was he like? Was he also oppressive? Was he power Hungry? etc

What was the government, economy, and society like in colonial America? And why did the colonies end up having a conflict with Great Britain? Finally, what was the straw that broke the camels back for America to break its relationship with Great Britain?

Pyramids, Maoi statues, Menhirs, etc.

I should add that I mean on a small scale. I'm well aware that World War 3 didn't happen.

I always see Luxembourg on maps of the Belgian invasion in WW1, and wonder why the Germans didn't sent their military through there. It seems like it would have avoided bringing in the British into the war, and likely would have been easier to push through. Why was Belgium a better option for the Germans to invade through than Luxembourg?

Could someone tell me how North Korea came to be considered any type of threat after the Korean War? I giggle at their rhetoric, as I think I'm programmed to, but do they carry any heft as a country to be reckoned with? Have they been dastardly busy since the '50s?

What is the historical context of Fiddler On The Roof regarding the expulsion of Jews from Russian villages? Were the Jewish residents new to that region? Or had they migrated there generations earlier? What was the reason for the expulsion of a non-militant population? Thanks.