Were they merely influenced by Egypt? Or did any Greeks go directly to learn in Egypt? I'm speaking about before the time of Alexander the Great.

My first thought was fishing, but then I thought fire. What are your thoughts?

I know that the term "Manifest Destiny" came into vogue long after the time of America's founding fathers, but did the founders of our country like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, etc. believe/envision/hope that one day the United States would stretch from coast-to-coast?

Did they believe the United States would eventually takeover the other colonies situated near it or were they happy with the land they had? In essence, did they believe in "Manifest Destiny" before it was in-vogue?

It seems that monks were major producers of wine during the middle ages, and some still are today.

Was wine from a particular monastery sold and consumed locally or was it exported to distant lands?

Did wine sales serve as a small addition to the meager monastic income, just helping the monks get by, or was this a huge for-profit industry? If so, who profited? The monks and monasteries themselves, or was it centralized into the hands of leading archbishops and popes? (e.g. would the Borgia family have profited from church-produced wine?)

I mean in the context of how large the language is beyond its use in religious text. Why has Hebrew not had the same effect for people of the Jewish faith or Greek and Latin have for Cristian peoples?

I understand the protestant reformation is the cut and dry answer, but I'm interested if there where some more in depth causes. From what I've learned, any discussion on the reformation has to include Martin Luther. However, europe must have been primed to accept his ideas? Had social discontent been prevalent or was it spontaneous?

For example; you could say WWII started in 1939 via Hitler, but if you really wanted to understand the start, you'd have to go back quite a bit further.

Wikipedia defines citizenship as the status of a person recognised under the custom or law of a state that bestows on that person (called a citizen) the rights and the duties of citizenship.

• When exactly did citizenship become something of meaning? What were the reasons behind it?

• When citizenship first became used...was it used to discriminate other ethnicity?...was it acknowledged by outsiders?...was it generally accepted by the people?

• How did this effect the migration of persons from city to city (or state to state)? Were there as strict laws as there are now?

It's now very common for a borrower's mortgage to change owners even three or four times, when did this come to be the case?

If anyone has a general answer on Shaving in other time periods, I wouldn't mind (if the mods don't mind either) hearing about that!

From a numbers perspective, it does seem that Bush may have won if Perot did not run. However, Perot was also a more moderate conservative than Bush and had a populist anti-NAFTA appeal that probably attracted some Democrats.

I'm in the middle of James Clavell's "Shogun" and I'm deeply interested in learning more about the real-life events the novel is based on, as well as learning just how accurate his portrayal of feudal Japan is.

What was the Japanese culture truly like?

How accurate does he show the Japanese views on life, duty, loyalty, death, etc.?

Who were the real-life individuals that the characters in the book were based on?

Thanks!

Especially before radar

I've read about britain's code breaking work with ultra and enigma and the advantages it gave to the western allies. Now i know America helped Russia with weapons, but did the benefits of British code breaking work also make it to and help in the Russian front? Did Britain intercept messages about eastern German troop movements and call up Russia to tell them where to expect attacks in advance? If not was it because Britain needed to keep this ability secret or because they simply couldn't intercept any messages from the eastern front?

Before the 20th century, did American teenagers learn to ride horses around the time they were 16? was the ability to ride horses or carriages seen as a valuable skill or was it common as a driver's license today?

The Roman Historian Livy wrote "Their slings were apparently more accurate than the standard one strap slings that others used. "They consisted of three thongs, stiffened by beings sewn together. This prevented the bullet from flying off at random when the thong was let go; when fixed in the sling it could be so whirled round as to fly out as though from the string of a bow." Does any one have any idea how this would work. I've tried a few ideas but nothing seemed workable.