I mean, why specifically milk and honey? Why not, I don't know, dates and water? Grain and gold? Were milk and honey just the two rarest luxuries at the time? Or is it possibly a mistranslation?

Did they imagine that they eventually would be able to launch an invasion of mainland Europe? Was it to bide their time until either the USSR or US entered the war? Or did they believe that the Nazi economy would eventually collapse from a protracted war?

I've only recently learned of the Bronze Age Collapse, and am fascinated by the concept. I haven't yet had time to check out any books on the subject, so I've mostly been rooting around this sub to find out more. It is my understanding that the Ancient Greeks did have some conception of a collapse, but did they view the following period as a dark age, that they had risen out of, in much the same way that some view the Enlightenment? Did they have some idea of "lost knowledge"? Or did they view it in some other way?

I ask this question in light of a recent rebuttal offered to the "Islamic State's" core tenets by many prominent Muslim scholars of the world. They point to verses in the Quran that contradict ISIS' core tenets, but I was wondering if there were also verses in the Quran that contradict this rebuttal.

Were films such as Dr Strangelove played in the USSR? And, as a related question, what was the opinion of the state (or the KGB) on such films?

I know that different peoples have had different ways to count the years. Some cultures, like our own, begin a count-up from a particular event (birth of Jesus in the West, Hijra in Islam), and others, such as Rome, would say something like "It is the thirtieth year of the current Consul". I've been very interested in the Iroquois Leage lately, so I was wondering how they counted the years.

I imagine there is a straight forward answer to this.

The strike on Pearl Harbor was fairly effective in crippling the fleet- why not send their own fleet afterwards to properly destroy it?

Hey! I am looking to read a book (introductory) about Japanese history. I am looking for something that would be comprehensive and not necessarily focusing on just one period of the country's history. A good example of what I guess I am looking for is a book I read recently about Chinese history named "China: A History" by John Keay. Any suggestions/recommendations are welcome!

If the son of a middle-class shopkeeper was found dead in the street, what would be the repercussion? Would the Byzantine government have any interest or ability in responding to such a crime?

Do we know how common violent crime was in the city? (600-1200 CE)

I know they mysteriously disappeared, and I could be asking this in the wrong place (if so I apologize,) but this topic has interested me ever since I was a little child and probably led to the reason I enjoy history. Does anyone have any further information as to what really happened to the Roanoke Colonists? What about the mysterious 'Croatoan' message?

To clarify i've heard it pronounced 3 different ways from (see zer) to ( kai zar) to even (che zar ray)