Let's say I was somehow warped to England some time in the past, what is the furthest year back I could go and be able to understand and speak with the locals?

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis affect everyday Americans' views on their country's role in the world? Is there evidence that the events directly led to any isolationist/anti-cold war movements? Or perhaps it had the opposite effect and led to a sense of American pride and power (as they ultimately came out on top)?

Additionally, could the anti-war movement, particularly to do with Vietnam, be seen as a result of the threat of nuclear strike within the psyche of the everyday American?

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And also what branch of the military would have been using them the most?

Like, our present day at all? 2000 AD? 2014 AD?

There are those who oppose stories of Jesus based on scripture, but what does archaeology and history have to say about the historical Jesus?

I know that the Bible is a collection of other books and letters, but I'm curious, who decided what was to be put into the Old Testament (and was this collection around before Jesus?) and what would go into the New Testament? Is it true that there other Gospels?

I'm not a Christian or anything, I'd just like cold hard facts (of course, I would love to hear a Christian's point of view). Thank you!

For example, Julius Caesar is lauded for never writing lists of enemies to be killed, unlike Sulla. However, I have heard it said that Caesar arranged assassinations of his enemies and rigged elections. Is this true? Was Julius Caesar really any better than a violent dictator?

im from Venezuela and to be honest i have never heard of racism in the level that USA had.

while there are some stigmas related to race, its not in the level of usa history, yet usa and latin america had a similiar story; Bolivar fighting vs the spaniards, gaining independence, trying to unite the countrys, but latin america failed in the process of creating the gran Colombia.

things that i have never heard in Venezuela history or culture for example are nigger memorabilia, groups that lynched minorities (the kkk), black rights movement, segregation in schools and public places, etc.

maybe im ignorant and it wasnt in the curriculum, so this is why im asking.

I just finished Mitchell Zuckoff's "Frozen In Time", and had no idea Greenland was so important during WWII. The book only gives a small view on Greenland's involvement during the war and all the benefits it offers whoever held it. Did the Axis have any plans to attack Greenland in an attempt to take it over?

As a Kiwi, I've been taught a lot about the Treaty and English settlement of New Zealand, but for some reason it sort of skips from Europeans arrive; to NZ is part of NSW; to Treaty being signed and then we learn from there.

Did something happen in between? Did New Zealand separating influence the Treaty at all? Was it simply a matter of distance/travel time/simplicity?

By ancient times I mean 3000BC-500BC in Mesopotamia or some other hub of civilization in the same time period.

I've heard many people refer to slavery back then as similar to being an employee today, but want to understand what it was actually like being a slave:

• What did it mean to be a slave at this time? (Is it comparable to being an employee to a CEO today?)
• How did people take ownership of other people?
• Were you ever able to work your way out of slavery? (How was freedom granted?)

This has been something that I've pondered frequently, especially when I'm around anarchy-minded people who make the parallel when referring to the contemporary employee:company owner relationship.

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I'm wondering what the South looked like directly after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. 36% of southern families were slaveholding. In the lower south, slaves made up 47% of the total population, and due to the 3/5 clause, it could have been more.

It's hard for me to wrap my head around the idea on December 31, 1862, slaveholders had free will to torture and kill slaves, and the very next day, all of those slaves were free. What did these former slaves do? I assume almost all of them had no education, unskilled, had nowhere to live; and the white population must have still held a deep seeded hatred for blacks.

My question is: What did all of these former slaves do? Did they all travel north? Did they just continue to work on plantations for wages? Was there still a lot of slavery going on under the radar? I'm hoping that someone can paint a picture of culturally what was going on in the South in 1863.

Early civilizations thought that the earth was flat, yet they looked at the moon every night. Why did people think earth was flat when the moon was not?

So many of our legal terms (Habeus Corpus, In forma paupis, ex post facto etc.) come from Latin, so certainly the Romans did something correctly, or the Roman legal system was just one of the best in its time?

I was wondering how old the idea of the teenage hooligan or rebel is. Is there a centuries old tradition of going out and smashing your neighbor's mailbox (so to speak) sometime between the ages of 13 and 19?

My title may not ask much but what I'm asking is if King's or men high up in the military hierarchy would've paid mercenaries or similar groups of people much like the modern PMC/Private Military Companies to help fight their wars.

I'm familiar with the Red Scares in the US but did Europe ever exhibit a significant reaction against radicals? Obviously this did happen in the Wiemar Republic and in Italy with fascist coming to power but what about other areas like Britain or another Western European country?