I know there was a non-unanimous vote, but did it work via everyone voting or just a few chosen country? Also, how did expulsions work? Was there a vote for that?

So, I have recently found out that Marcus Licinius Crassus is one of the wealthiest men in history. My question is: where did he keep all this money? I assume the bank system was not as elaborate as it is in the modern world.

Thanks in advance in this matter of confusion!

Boredom? Technology? Culture? Couldn't beat the high score?

Title says all--I am somewhat familiar with Marx's distinction of classes, but I don't really understand how a Marxist analysis of a specific event would be different from say what I would find on wiki. Could someone give me a few examples of a Marxist analysis? Also, what other lenses could one use to analyze history?

Thanks for your time.

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Cyprus is an outlier among European countries in that the president is both the head of state and the head of government. Currently there are no other countries in Europe with such a system. Even Belarus, with mega-strongman Lukshenko, is still nominally a semi-presidential system.

Why did Cyprus take this kind of constitutional path back in 1960? What influenced this decision?

As one might have surmised, started playing Sniper Elite: V2 recently. If a player gets off a lucky shot and hits an enemy Wehrmacht or Red Army soldier's carried grenades, there is a chance that one will detonate and kill the carrier.

I understand that aiming for a target as small as an enemy's belted grenade would be near impossible, but if a rifle bullet happened to strike a Stielhandgranate or F1 was there a chance of it going off?

I read about a battle of Borodino in WWII, even though it obviously wasn't as significant as its more famous cousin and you can barely find it if you Google it I thought that was pretty cool. Were there many battles that took place on previous famous battlegrounds, something like a second battle of Waterloo, but this time with tanks.

I watched the show "band of brothers" recently. They seemed to be making good time moving through Europe towards and inside German territory. Was there a long period of the war where it was known what the result would be, but fighting still needed to be done?

Or were soldiers and generals generally unaware of how bad the German economy / war machine was doing until very late in the war. I always wonder if there was serious fear that the Germans would turn it around.

I guess I wonder if shortly after Normandy the "higher ups" knew the victory was only a matter of time considering the amount of troops and supplies the Allies had. And the fact that the Germans were fighting on two fronts.

Edit: Wow no way I can respond to all these answers! But be assured I read every single reply. Thanks.

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I have always been interested in the Sengoku and Bakumatsu periods of Japan, including the Meiji Restoration, the Sakoku, The Shinsengumi and Admiral Perry and the Black Ships. However, most of my knowledge, while accurate when I factcheck myself, comes mostly from games centered in the time period (Samurai Warriors, Way of the Samurai, etc...), movies (Seven Samurai, The Last Samurai, Zatoichi, Rashomon), anime (Ruruoni Kenshin, Peacemaker Kurogan) or some classes in the SCA (Samurai Chef, Calligraphy, Sumo, and Names all taught by Mistress Solveig Throrarsdottir). I have been unable to find classes in school or college which covered the subject so I would like to do some reading on my own. Rather than dive directly into books with titles like History of Japan, I wanted to know if there are any sources that r/AskHistorians might recommend for someone who is interested in rounding out there knowledge without depending on Wikipedia or pouring through dry, history books. Any well written historical fiction, historical tudies or even highly accurate movies and other media I may have missed?

Today we see many soldiers acquiring PTSD from fighting in wars, presumably because the advancement of modern transportation allowed them to see more combat than soldiers before them. However, the fighting soldiers saw back in, say, Roman times would have been visually a lot more brutal because it was so up close and personal. Did these soldiers come back shell-shocked from the death and destruction they witnessed right in front of them?

I was browsing Wikipedia and came across the list of Patriarchs of Antioch. It lists "Paul the Jew" as Patriarch from 518 to 521, and lists elsewhere on the internet seem to agree. Unfortunately, Wikipedia has no more to say about this guy, and Google provides little help either. Does this title indicate he was a convert, or are there other reasons why a Christian leader would receive that title?

One of the challenges I have with reading histories, especially older ones, is that i'm to some extent a visual learner and what i'm reading will mention cities, places and geographical boundaries that are no longer familiar in the modern world. Sadly most of the accounts don't offer their own maps of say, Europe in the 1500s or the extent of the Byzantine Empire in 983, so i'm often left out in the cold.

Is there any kind of online resource that maintains this data for easy reference? I feel like I often need to have a general map on hand as I study given period of history to refer to in order to keep everything clear in my head.

It's always been an interest of mine, so I'm looking for a good database or backlog of myths and legends from around the world. These would include Greek, Roman, Finnish, Celtic, Norse, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.