Conversely, if the spatha was 'better' than the gladius, why weren't they using it from the very beginning?

Now, as we all know, the Berlin wall didn't fall quickly at all. It's just that the time between "The wall will stay" and "well, everyone is allowed to pass through" was very short. Could someone please explain how the situation escalated so quickly? And, if it's not too much of a problem for you, if there are any people lokking at this post right now who have experienced either the rise, the fall, living in a seperated Berlin or all three of those, would you please tell us about it? We'd like to use the comments to this post for our school project. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance, berlinwall123.

Beyond Grendel, there's 'his mother' and 'a dragon'. Why was Grendel given a name whilst the other monsters where not?

Was it simply because Grendel was a problem for longer, while Grendel's mom and the dragon died before they could be given a name?

I saw a "documentary" on Netflix about German u boats off the coast of the US. Up until seeing this, I had no idea it happened. I'm 33 and somewhat of a history bug. How did I not know this happened? I'm certain there was some effort to mitigate the news of the war being this close to "home", but what are the pertinent details about these events?

Thanks!

I read that the Spanish royalty ended up with higher child mortality rates than the Spanish peasants. Did they ever connect their poor health to inbreeding?

I have heard that Julius Caesar believed Brutus to be his son. Anyone know the validity to this?

How influential was the black panther movement at their peak?

Why were they so prominent? , was it due to good timing and luck or through sheer hard work and promotion?

Why did they do better/worse than other similar movements ?

Is there a generally accepted history or is it split down political lines?

Was there ever any great controversy that discredited them in any way?

Can anybody recommended some well received, reliable books or documentaries on them?

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• let me know if i'm better off just asking one question next time

I had been under the (mistaken) impression that the European demand for spices were to preserve and flavor meat due to the lack of refrigeration, but if that isn't true then why was there such a high demand in Europe for these spices?

Hi,

So, I've heard a lot about individual figures in the history of western science, and what the overall response was to them. Copernicus, who posited that the Earth goes around the Sun, was rejected (and even he didn't say outright his theory was true - he just suggested that it made the math convenient). Galileo was put under house arrest for similar assertions, as well as his observations that the planets are material and not ethereal.

Meanwhile, in a similar time period, Kepler made important strides applying Copernicus's ideas to planetary motion, as well as showing that orbits are not perfect circles, but ellipses. I never hear about what kind of backlash came against Kepler, but it seems his ideas became well-accepted not long after he proposed them. Newton would later use them as the basis for his Laws of Motion and Gravitation. Newton's publication of Principia is often referred to as the beginning of the scientific revolution. He was well-respected in his time.

What were the social and political changes that allowed science to flourish, rather than be rejected? Or was it mainly a geographical issue (Galileo in Italy, and Newton in England)?

Thanks!

I'm just wondering what the plains Indians in the US would have done during a large thunderstorm (especially since some of the tribes were nomadic and some were not). What did they think or say about tornadoes and hail and straightline winds? Do we have any idea of storm caused casualties or city damage prior to European colonization?

I'd imagine the Dutch were not pleased, but did some Dutch people want to go to war with the UK because of the cultural ties between Boers and the Dutch?

I'd also be interested in what the other major European powers thought about the wars and their relation to the concert of Europe.