A friend of mine was discussing this and asserted that the Jews "outnumbered" the Nazi's and proposed that, "They knew they were going to die anyway so why didn't they try to take a stand and rebel/fight against the Nazi's?"

I personally don't think it's that simple. Thoughts?

If not, why do people often say there is more evidence for the Bible than there is for the existence of Plato? If it is valid, why cant it be used as proof for certain events, such as the Jews being enslaved by Egypt?

For example, did she really wear a different pair of shoes everyday? What evidence is there that she was bisexual or a lesbian? Did she really have a gambling problem?

How common was it for a woman to go Viking with her male companions? Specifically I'm referring to the raids on England in the 9th and 10th centuries. I started watching the show Vikings and even with my limited knowledge of the Danish invasions I can see that they have, quite liberally, scrubbed the facts but on the show there are women taking on warrior roles in nearly every moderate to large scale invasion. This seems a bit fishy to me as I know the idea of a shieldmaiden was a thing but always saw it as more of an isolated situation and not a rule (as in, every once in a while there might be a woman who takes on a combat role amongst male peers more so than there are always women peppered in with the men on invasions).

Did they use clothing? Did they just get sun more often, and get more tan, so they wouldn't get sunburned?

Between the Exodus-era and the Roman era, the Hebrews interacted with many civilizations around them. Is there any record of how those other civilizations reacted to the Hebrew idea of monotheism? Did the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, for example, deny the existence of the Hebrew god, or did they simply regard it as a foreign god that was not part of their pantheon? (Or did religions such as the Romans try to incorporate the Hebrew god into their own pantheon, much as they incorporated Persian and Egyptian gods such as Isis and Mithras)?

I am aware that the Roman general Pompey (and presumably the Macedonians under Alexander) were confused to find the Jewish temple at Jerusalem to be empty, bereft of statues and representations of their god.

I know Damascus has been around for at least 3500 years but I was wondering if there are any that are even older. By "still exists today" it doesn't necessarily have to be a huge city like Athens or Rome, but at least a functioning city that is known for more than just being an archaeological site.

I recently found this subreddit and this is my first post, so excuse me if there's a better place for such questions. Also, I really hope I use proper terminology...

For story-writing-purposes I'm searching for information about Mesoamerica before the European discovery of the Americas. I have of course very basic ideas, but the more I know the better I can tell how to properly interpret it. Now, I know this is a rather broad and unspecific question, but here's what's mostly important for me:

• The subjects should have to be Aztec and/ or Mayan civilizations (I know they hardly were at their height at the same time, or at least the Maya already had gone through their mysterious decline) at the respective time when they were a high culture
• Any information regarding said collapse of the Maya would be great. Wikipedia is very vague and altough I suspect we just don't know, mysterious declines sound very intriguing
• The main topics should include religion and mythology, social structure and warfare. Astronomy, architecture and art and the famous Maya Calendar would also be very interesting. A quick rundown of how advanced they were in terms of technology and mathematics would be also apprechiated.
• What I'm not really interested in is daily life (which I guess wasn't very different from classical or medieval life in Eurasia), agriculture, historical kings and wars, or generally speaking, a 'timeline'. Of course you can't really untie this from the rest, but it shouldn't be the focus.
• Has to be available English, or even better German (although I doubt there's much to be found)

I guess I'm sounding rather pretentious here, I'm aware how this is a huge chunk of information and can't possibly be explained in one or two books in the way it would deserve and I'm also aware that you hardly can answer a question like 'How were the Aztecs/ Mayas?' without reaching very, very deep. It's just a rather unused, or even disregarded setting and for someone who never learned much about it bar 'they were there for some time and they all died once the Europeans came' it's pretty hard to get a feeling for cultures who existed a very long time but are so 'alienated' from ours.

Anyway, thanks everyone in advance for everything you can point me at. Just keep in mind that I'm no historian and in my case, less is probably more.

It's easy to research where the trade routes were for any given period of time. I wanted to know where goods were exchanged. Specifically, how organized was this process? Did all villages on the trade routes have markets and all of the exchanges took place there? Was it more of an exchange of goods, or was there a common currency (eg: gold)? Did the end-user purchase the item directly from the traders who traveled on the trade routes, or were there just as many middlemen as exist today?

If someone could point me to any references about how trade historically took place, I would also love to read it!

Please list the countries that declared war in WWI, but did not fight and their reasons.

It seems now and days theres a lot of conspiracies or running gags that jews are behind a majority of man made disasters, they run the world, or something that happened was the jews in the banks.

Where and why did these accusations, along with the running gags come into fruition? Is it based off of racial issues and stereotypes or something completely different?

And how/when did the practice come into frutition?

It seems like a stupid question, but has it ever been the case where through dumb luck, too many children in one generation were born as one gender for the population to survive?

Trajan's conquests of Armenia and Mesopotamia were reversed by Hadrian after the former's death in 117. This was the largest the empire would ever become in its history.

My question is, why was their no further motivation for Roman territorial expansion? Were their any attempts to conquer Caledonia (Scotland) or Hibernia (Ireland)? Was it due to the control of the Mediterranean rendering any economic motivations irrelevant?