The Roman Empire absorbed many different civilisation and I've always heard that everybody in the Roman Empire "felt" Roman, even though their ancestors belonged to another civilisation. But I came to wonder, did they really feel that Roman? Or were some people opposed to the Roman Empire and wanted to recreate their former countries?

is there some archaeological evidence about this?

I was watching a show earlier that made me wonder: How was policing handled during times of war? I mean, I know that nowadays, the police force is largely unaffected by wartime, but back then, they pretty much sent all of their able men off to war. Unless I'm mistaken, women weren't generally trained to be police officers that early. So, how did it happen? Did police officers take turns policing and soldiering, did they draw names out of a hat, or were police officers just exempt from military service requirements?

You have organized crime, on one hand. I'm sure that not all of them honored their country's rules about sending able-bodied men to war. You'd have anarchy without an effective police force.

Wasn't their goal to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims?

I am a white male who has ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. I also have a black girlfriend. We were at a former plantation and there was this huge and elaborate Celtic cross like tombstone for a slave simply called "Nanna" or something similar to that. We been thinking about this and I've been wondering about the relationship between master and slave. I have read things about how some Southern women had the slaves breastfeed their children. How complicated and intimate was the relationship between master and slave? Was it just tyrannical or pseudo-parental and patronizing?

I'm looking for two types of books:

Books on the pre-Columbian contact Indians in the United States, Canada -- how they lived, how they farmed, their mythology, etc. Or, in general, if anyone has a good book on indigenous religion in North America, that would also be much appreciated!

Books on how the Plains Indians tried to cope with with being displaced from the lands, Indian wars, etc.

Also, if there's anything else anyone could tell me about tensions in that time between nationalists and quislings who served the Axis, it'd be helpful. I had no idea how rich the time and place is.

And if I'm attacking ships, how would I do this without a cannon?

Was it bad tactics? Poor equipment? How was Serbia able to hold them off? Just in general why did they perform poorly on pretty much all fronts?

After playing the Dynasty Warrior games and skimming through articles on the Records of the Three Kingdoms, it seems as if Lu Bu was a monstrous warlord at his time. Was Lu Bu really this powerful?

I've heard claims that Jews often voluntarily fought alongside the Muslims, that Jews under Islamic rule were not treated as bad as opposed to Crusader rule, and that the Muslims actively tried to protect Jews from pogroms. Is there any documented evidence of this?

Why did it happen and way the western culture and not any other?

im sure there are many. id like to hear them all.

as a side question, did Japanese troops actually shout something along the lines of "FOR THE EMPERORRRR" ?

I've wondered this for a bit, and wanted to see if history would turn up anything about these racist interpretations of different races. Mainly how we came to associate traits like black people and watermelon or Asians with buck teeth, so on and so forth.

Did they often wear ridiculous clothes? Were they a consistent presence at court? Were they punished for bad jokes? Anything else worth mentioning?

I know that the Western Allies did, and in some instances recycled concentration camps like Bergen-Belsen as refugee camps. But did the Soviets have any equivalents?