I may be going to Armenia next summer and I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good books that covers the Genocide.

Currently, if you ask someone to describe futuristic technology you would get things like distant space travel, nanobots, etc. If you asked that same question to Ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, Feudal Japan, etc. what kind of answers would you get?

•The development of aircraft during the war made for exciting stories, but did they deliver any significant victories on either side?

•If you were to compare the combat effectiveness of tanks on the battlefield to aerial assaults, which would prove more influential throughout the war?

I was listening to episode 3 of the AskHistorians podcast where the practice of human sacrifice in mesoamerica was discussed rather thoroughly, and the concept of the captor eating the femurs of the sacrificial victim came up. The sacrifices were also dressed up as imitations of gods, so that they would represent their physical manifestation on earth. When catholic priests or missionaries began to make concerted efforts to convert the people of mesoamerica, did they implicitly draw comparisons between communion and the sacrificial themes of the indigenous religion? Did the mesoamericans even see it this way? If not deliberately playing up this aspect, did the clergy recognize that communion might be interpreted through the lens of mesoamerican human sacrifice? Sorry if I asked this is in a convoluted way.

We all know the US government was petrified of a monolithic communist bloc, but relations between Beijing and Moscow were nearly non-existent throughout the late 1960s and until Nixon's visit in 1972. In fact, there were border skirmishes between the two Communist powers.

Surely the US had spies focused on Moscow and Beijing. How was the US unaware of the tensions between the two? Or were the deliberately ignorant?

During WW2 did British troops often wear berets rather than helmets in combat situations?

Alternatively, I could imagine that the berets are just over represented in the media because British helmets of the time were rather silly looking.

EDIT: I couldn't find links, but the first examples that spring to mind are band of brothers, inglorious basterds and one of the call of duty games.

It seems that, in pre-science times, the only certain parent of a child was the mother. Why then, were families traced through fathers (which, before gene testing, were still guesswork)?

I've heard in popular culture many references to Nazis hiding out for decades in South America, notably Argentina. What is the connection?

Sorry for the poor wording in the title. English is not my native language

Maybe a bit too niche, I'm not sure. I'm interested in something that also focuses on the military strategic aspects.

While we're here, I'm interested in any books that might include information on the whole civil war. Again, military focus is the point of interest.

I'm sort of out of the loop when it comes to this. As far as i know the jews were given Israel by someone (who?) after ww2 out if pity because of all that had happened to them and then they turned into the bad guys by oppressing the people who were there first?

When I say "calling," I really mean he tried very hard to make friends on both sides.

Or I might be talking out of my ass, I'm not sure. I don't know where I get this impression from, but I'm 99% positive that there was at least one president who had to deal with an extremely divided congress and was able to force the issues he wanted addressed by entertaining congressmen and their families on a bipartisan basis. He made close, personal friends with many of them, then would try to convince them to make concessions on their hardline positions.

The rest -- the more stubborn ones -- he called during all the random, late hours of the night to bully and annoy.

I also recall, with absolutely no factual basis, that he managed to squeeze through some pretty decent results that weren't dead-end "compromises."

How this question arose: I'm a home meadmaker and am looking to begin studying and producing pulque, an ancient Aztec alcoholic drink made by fermenting maguey (agave) nectar (whiskey:beer :: tequila:pulque). Public knowledge of the history of pulque is available but limited, and the specifics of its production are more limited.

More generally, I have come across this issue a few times in my life. How do I seek out knowledge leaders on specific topics? Any suggestions?

I'm very interested in further reading on the British Empire in the 'imperial century' (1815-1914). The British were active all over the world, so I'd be interested in accounts and history from any region.

Do you have any recommendations or where to begin looking?

Thank you in advance for taking the time.