Or, were there any early theological battles tied to politics during the period after the civil war? Basically, I want to try to understand how, in a concrete sense, Southern Baptism was branded a republican institution. Did this happen 'intentionally', or was it an organic process?

In my search for personal search for knowledge I let my eye fall on the russian revolution what are some good books, online recources to "investigate" it

This question has been asked here before, I'm aware, but that was over a year ago, and there weren't any solid answers. Has anything changed on the subject?

I've been constantly coming across food spices being much saught after and traded for in history. Europe got much of it from arab traders and arabs got much of it from india. Were people really just crazy about spicing their food so much that trade markets and routs were constructed for it?

As far as I know Universities were founded by the Emperor (or different Monarchs?) or the Pope and obviously enough they exercised some powers over the instutions. I remember Thomas Aquinas' teaching was condemned for a while and that the leader of the University (Chancellor instead of rector as we nowdays call him, if we're not English) was appointed by either the Emperor or the Pope. But in present days there is full academic freedom, and the University can even appoint its own leader (this might not be true for all countries, but I probably is for EU ones). So when and why there was a transition?

Hey AskHistorians, I was wondering if you guys could give me a bit more insight as to what exactly the Quetzalcoatl was for the Aztecs. I don't mean the person but the feathered serpent.

I'm getting the image tattooed on my ribs soon, and I wanted to know more about it. It means quite a bit to me, but i wanted to get more info, and maybe even some stories and legends to read up on. Thanks in advance.

Was it any different than in western countries ? Were there any way the socialist ideology was influencing the way those investigations were done ?

For a time-frame, I was thinking of the time between the 70's towards the end of the soviet union.

I understand Japan entered war with the Netherlands, Britain, and a number of other countries in the Pacific in a desperate bid to secure oil, which they had been deprived of due to the American-led embargo, but why exactly did they attack America? Couldn't they just have attacked the aforementioned countries and gotten the resources they need without attacking America? Or were they expecting America to attack them in response should they do that, and would have preferred to start the war on their own terms, so to speak?

Menander, the ancient Greek playwright, wrote over a hundred comedies and was one of the most popular writers of antiquity, according to our sources. The apostle Paul quoted him in the New Testament, Plutarch praised his works, and where Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he supposedly said, "Let the die be cast!", a line from one of Menander's plays.

Yet his works mostly didn't make it to the present day. Up until the 1900s, all we had of his plays were fragments quoted by other authors. During the last hundred years, matters have improved somewhat since we found the Bodmer Papyri and a couple of other fragments. Yet his only complete play is Dyskolos, and Sami (the second most complete play) still has over a hundred lines missing.

Why didn't more of Menander's works survive? Did they not make the transition from scrolls to codices, or was his work considered less important than that of other playwrights like Euripides or Aristophanes? Or is there some other reason?

I've been listening to Sabaton - Union quite a bit and decided to look it up. From what I gathered on Wikipedia (not terribly reliable I know), the goal was to push through and capture Rome. IIRC, it said something about northern Italy being too heavily fortified or is that not true?

If you kind Historians could enlighten me about this event that would be greatly appreciated :)

Hi friends, I'm working on a story and I'm wondering if anyone can offer some perspective about what life would be like in Savannah, GA during the prohibition era, roaring 20s? If this is the right subreddit for a question like this.