Hello! This is the first time I ask a question, so sorry if the title isn't very precise.

I used to believe that there was no title of King of Italy, and that the north of the peninsula was ruled over by city states. However, reading about the early middle-ages I saw that there used to be a kingdom of Italy, and that the title was very well alive until 1530.

What was the importance of this title? Did it have any legal power?

While listening to the song Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley recently, I noticed the lyric "buffalo soldier, dreadlock Rasta". This song is based around the American civil war, and to my knowledge the Rastafarian religion has only been around since the 1930s. Is there evidence of people in the civil war era following Rastafarian type religions, or is this lyric just artistic license?

Oared ships had an obvious advantage of not being at the winds mercy of the wind. Other than obvious advantages such as smaller crew and more space for cannon/cargo, what is the comprehensive list of reasons for the change? Thanks.

specifically concerning the different factors leading up to the election of Hitler in Chancellorship and what he did afterwards

Why were there separate Bavarian army corps, as well as a separate Bavarian cavalry corps? Also, what was the reputation of the Bavarian units when compared to other Imperial army formations?

When I was little, I used to think that planets were named after their features: for example, Jupiter was named after the king of gods because of its size; Saturn was named after the god of crops and calendar because of his color and his rings resembling a clock; Uranus and Neptune after the gods of the sky and sea because of their respective colors, etc.

But then I learned that at the time of their discovery people had no way to know about most of those features. I know that there is a kind of logic behind some of them (Venus because of its brightness, Mars because of its red color resembling blood), but ancient people didn't know about Jupiter's size, nor did the discoverers of the ice giants know about their color (that I know of).

So my question is, to what extent is it purely a coincidence that these names seem to describe them so well? Is there a reason behind the similarities, or was it just luck?

I know that slavs were considered by Hitler non-aryan and this should mean that they have to be "cleaned". What seems strange to me is that compared to jews, slavs are A LOT of people. 10 million jews are a lot too, but ~200 million slavs is something else. Putting everything else aside, it just does not seem practical.

Was he really that crazy or there was some kind of more elaborate plan to "deal" with slavs ?

P.S. I know this is sensitive topic for a lot of people and I do not mean to offend anyone. I do not in any way try to defend the nazi agenda.

P.S.2 I know some slavs were Germanys allies so obviously we can put them aside. To make things easier, we could assume we are talking about people speaking slavic language that were not nazi allies.

P.S.3 According to the American Jewish Yearbook, the Jewish population of Europe was about 9.5 million in 1933; I could not find estimation of slavs living in Europe ( and USSR parts of Asia) around that time, but about 200 million people sounds reasonable to me, correct me if you have more precise information.

I was watching game of thrones today and it got me thinking about Middle Ages Europe and I have always wondered how it really was. Thanks in advance (:

Edit: wow, thank you for the replies and stuff (: very interesting.

Edit again: Wow, thank you for the response, /r/askhistorians (: this is my most successful post of all time, too. I have learned a lot today

I know there are ethnic and subtle cultural differences, but there are a lot of Republics (Tatarstan, Chechnya, Dagestan) that are much more different than Moscow and ended up staying in the Federation. I'm still learning in this area so forgive me if this is an obvious answer.

Does this mean the writer implied that Dunyazade watched her sister having sex with the King? Was sex seen as something not private enough to let someone else watch a couple copulating?

Year 12 student here, I'm currently studying the American revolution at my high school. I'd like to know what I could read for a better understanding of the revolution and the events leading up to it.

If the spy came and spied on lets say the united states then thought are motive was better and converted to our side. How many did this and how often? Im reference to cold war era