Generational conflict in Greek mythology is abundant, with Zeus defeating his father, fathers of all generations eating children, etc. What other religions have this same story?

It seems to me that the phenomenon of wealthier youth aping the culture and mannerisms of poorer (and more populous) groups cannot be merely a modern phenomenon. But perhaps Western culture was more heavily striated, socially, prior to the modern era. Do we have historical examples of wealthier kids hobnobbing with or "acting" as though they were members of the hoi polloi to seem "cool?"

Understandable why a modern religion like the Mormons reacted to modern excesses, but was Islam's take a copy of earlier practices or something unique to founding philosophy?

[I understand that the Americas, Australia and many other parts of the world are due to recent colonisation, so I'll ignore them from the equation]

PIE descendants are spoken in most of Europe, India and Iran. When PIE first started developing, there would have been many other languages throughout these areas, so why did PIE spread across them, as opposed to another language. Alternatively, why does one language root dominate so much of the world; why isn't there lots of language families in these areas?

As a follow up question, would English, Chinese and Nahuatl all be related, distantly? Are all human languages descended from one common ancestor, or did language emerge independently in multiple locations?

By similarites, I am refering to the national financial crisis, dispossession and anger of the lower class, lack of effective leadership in the governing class and publication of popular media that stirs conflict and resentment rather than solidarity.

I am listening to the excellent Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan, and the social tensions that preceeded the revolution sound familiar to me.

I can see how the mandipular formation was effective against a horde of barbarians, but I'm having difficulty understanding how it would work so efficiently against a phalanx. Was it a merely, and across the board, a flanking matter? It seems, to me, that a phalanx of shields and arranged pikes, already designed to deflect arrows, would be effective against thrown pila, and that a long wall of aspides and sarisa/spear would also be effective against a scutum and gladius? I know that lack of flank cavalry and the maneuverability of the mandible was crucial to the defeat of Macedon, but what about other Phalanx armies, such as the Greek states, Carthage, Seleucids, Pontus, et al? I know that's a pretty wide range of time, but I'd appreciate any responses!

I want to learn more about Roman history, but I also want to know if the stuff I'm reading is credible.

How was it decided what the order of the letters in the alphabet would be in?

Before during and after the bill of rights.

Just wondering- you couldn't even sort a sheet by customer name or revenue to know who to focus on?

I have this idea that families had 1 bed and 9 children. How could everyone possibly fit? What would they do when it came to sex?

Like how every culture has a variation of a sword or bow and arrow, is it just a coincidence?

It seems to me that it would have to be Byzantium given it's a more or less direct connection to the original "Roman" empire in the West, or the Islamic world given that it most reaped the benefits of the waning of the Roman world.

Similarly, when did the inhabitants of other Romance language nations such as Spain and Portugal stop referring to the vernacular language as Latin and start referring to it by another name?

When did coal first come into use, and by whom? I imagine before it was used to fuel the industrial revolution it was used much as as timber/cow patties where? Also where there any noticeable affects on the economy? I gotta imagine coal not only freed up a huge amount of lumber for other things, but also freed up allot of manpower (again i gotta imagine mining for coal is more efficient than chopping trees).

tl;dr What was the effect of coal on pre-industrial society?

Also any books (no jstor access :( I'm a welder not a scholar) on the subject would be appreciated!