Like in the American civil war were armies just roving around waiting for action or did they camp out? Or in world war 2, how did a typical platoon operate?

This may be silly, but it always seems to go by without much information in non-fiction ww1 accounts, and history books growing up. I'm aware the Germans used some pretty serious artillery against belgian forts at the beginning of the war, and I'd imagine the real problem could have just been the logistics of getting big cannons to the fronts without railroads.

I'm a bit out of my depth, and I'm curious as to why artillery didn't nullify a lot of the protection that trench warfare offered combatants. Thanks for any info.

So far I've heard about a confirmed DNA and skull analysis, Chinese texts saying that the Japanese claimed descent from a Wu King, and a brief wikipedia sentence saying that the Wu were really good at making swords.

Do we have anyway of knowing what music they had other than the very basic like knowing which instruments they used? where there musical notation at the time of cezar?

in general, is every piece of music "writen" before the musical notation lost?

I have a 10 minute presentation on Egypt to describe the evolution of funerary architecture from Predynastic times to the End of the New Kingdom What are some key developments that I should Mention? NOT ALL GENIUSES ANSWER AT ONCE ;)

Been reading about Ceaser and Augustus on Wikipedia and am so intrigued, but know those article are only scratching the surface.

What are 5 books I can read to get a pretty good sense of the rise to the fall of the Roman Empire. First hand accounts would be awesome.

Thanks

Did the level of noise and commotion vary greatly between different eras of battle (before common gunpowder weaponry)? If so, what were some of the most significant sources of noise and would they have made communication difficult? The only source I currently aware of would be the Old Testament of the Bible, which repeatedly describes the din of battle something like "the cries of men and the stampeding of hooves" (not actual quote, heh).

Thanks in advance, and I would be very interested in books that delve deeper into this subject.

Currently studying this and Supreme Court cases fascinate me. I ask my teachers but they always say there isn't just "one" important one. Maybe Reddit might find one that is most important?

My teacher meant that advancements such as planes (WWI), submarines (WWI), radars (WWII), etc... happened because men needed to kill each other more efficiently. He even used to claim that the reason why the first stick was used as a tool was probably because a man needed to hit on another one.

I guess what he claimed is that technology followed a chaotic evolution punctuated by big advancements during wars, and then diluting these advances in our every day life, improving our comfort and building the technology we know today. The main reason I think is that huge amounts of money can be found during war times (an ongoing war was never stopped because countries lacked money), but I feel that this trend might have changed during the last 40 years thanks to other large amounts of money that it is possible to find in public markets, or even through Crowdfundings, IPOs, start-ups, and also large joint projects between countries (LHC for example), etc...

Does it mean that we might not need to kill each other (or crush each other) in order to achieve big technological advancements from now on?

Thank you for your time!

I remember watching it on the military history channel. It was WWII, and it was when some scouting vessels actually held their ground against battleships. I think that the Yamato was there too. I can't remember what it was called. Help?