With the Romano-British and the Normans, the South East seems to have been the seat of power, I suspect because of its closeness to the continent. Yet with the Anglo-Saxons, despite their having arrived in England in the South East, it seems it was the South West that became dominant. For example, West Saxon was the prestige Old English dialect, and King Athelstan of Wessex united England.

What was different then that led to Wessex being dominant?

Sorry if this isn't the right place for this question or there isn't enough information but it was a book telling you to do what's best for you and hurry others if you have to our something like that. I want to say it is French and possibly Voltaire but I couldn't find it. If anyone can make sense of this it would be nice for help. Thanks.

Were there any notable conversions between 1 AD and the current day that would affect the current Ashkenazi population? I know that the question of Khazar influence has recently be tending in the negligible direction, but overall, what is the likelihood?

Any media especially some subjective literature would be great. I'm sorry if this question is stupid but I would love to read more and you'all the ones reading the most!

I'm reading the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and recently got into a debate with a friend about to what extent TR was racist. From the biography, it seems that he was not very prejudiced, but I'm worried about whether or not the biography is one sided, so I guess I'd like to know to what extent TR ascribed to these philosophies, as well as any opinions about The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and if there are any other biographies I should read with it to give myself a more rounded perspective.

What were the limiting factors on the production of ships and aircraft?

That's all. It would be awesome if you would like to add a comment as to why you think the person is interesting but that's totally optional.

I'd like to pick someone that isn't too commonly chosen (I know teachers get bored reading too many papers about the same people).

Here's the (huge) list of options:

Middle Ages Thomas Becket, Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Peter Abelard, Johannes Gutenberg, Geoffrey Chaucer, Simon de Montfort, Saladin, Marco Polo, Petrarch, Roger Bacon, William Wallace, Perkin Warbeck, Eleanor of Aquitaine, El Cid, Lambert Simnel

Absolutism Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIV, Robert Walpole, William Pitt the Younger, John Wilkes, Frederick William I, Frederick II, Maria Theresa, Joseph II, Catherine the Great, Cardinal Mazarin, Ivan IV, William of Orange, Peter the Great, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Hobbes

Renaissance Donato di Donatello, Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Boccaccio, Raphael, Rembrandt, Lorenzo de Medici, Niccolo Machiavelli, Catherine de Medici, Cosimo de Medici, Isabella d'Este, Cesare Borgia, Marsilio Ficino, Mirandola, Albrecht Durer, Scientific Revolution, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Robert Boyle, Rene Descartes, Johannes Kepler, Vesalius, Isaac Newton, Nostradamus, Francis Bacon, Tyco Brahe, Paracelsus, William Harvey, Antoine Lavoisier, Cesare Beccaria, Margaret Cavendish, Maria Merian

Reformation Henry VIII, John Calvin, Catherine of Aragon, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Erasmus, Ulrich Zwingli, Cardinal Wolsey, Jane Seymour, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Ignatius, Francis Xavier, Paul III

Enlightenment John Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, Denis Diderot, Francois Quesnay, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Franz Joseph Haydn, Pierre Bayle, Marie-Jean de Condorcet, Mozart, John Wesley, Antoine Watteau

European Exploration Pedro Cabral, Ferdinand Magellan, Jacques Cartier, Francisco Pizarro, Juan Ponce de Leon, Vasco da Gama, Prince Henry the Navigator, Bartholomeu Dias, John Cabot, Vasco de Balboa, Hernan Cortes, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Amerigo Vespucci, Hernando de Soto

*Edited to add commas

I'm watching Hotel Rwanda and they said that. Is that true? Would that make them responsible for the genocide?

While many historians have argued the apocalyptic nature of the Third Reich in regards to the elimination of the Jews, in what other ways can Hitler's regime be viewed as apocalyptic?

My TA today mentioned that this past school year was the first year students didn't have a "Golden Age of the South" view on the Antebellum period. I suppose this is in contrast to the class-divided and slave driven south.

Edit: I grew up in the Southeast.

Basically: was it militarily not feasible for the Aztecs to overcome the Tlaxcalans? Or did the Aztecs prefer that the Tlaxcalans retain some sort of nominal independence? (Perhaps so that they could be legally sacrificed? Not sure on the Aztec legal code re: sacrifice eligibility.)

Or were the Aztecs willing and able to conquer the Tlaxcalans, but they just hadn't quite finished when they were interrupted by the Spanish?

I'm doing a project for an environmental studies class at UW-Madison. It's a group project on how people can eat sustainably in Wisconsin by enjoying native foods and storing food through the winter months. My portion of the project is about Native American's of Wisconsin and what foods they harvested, hunted/gathered throughout the year. I have a lot of general information about wild rice, corn and the Three Sisters. What I haven't been able to find is information about Wisconsin Native Americans and how they stored their food during the winter and what they ate throughout the year besides wild rice and corn. I have an idea about what resources they used, but I can't find any sources to back them up. Are there any good Native American history sources you can think of or any general information about this topic with sources? Or maybe I'm tackling this information wrong. Is there a better way of finding this information in the community or by talking to tribes members themselves? This is a very specific topic so I realize there may not be many sources to choose from, but any help would be much appreciated.

Would they anchor at night? I know that's what the crow's nest was for. Would they use giant lanterns as headlights?

How high of a priority was it to avoid damage to civilians and cultural sites? Was it something that was not considered before the agenda of ending the enemies ability to make war? Was it something that was targeted so as to sap the enemy populations will to fight?

Europe and Japan were filled with people who did not wear a uniform or carry a gun, as well as places that were of cultural value to the whole world. To what extent did we avoid harming them?

Did explorers like Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Zheng He, and others, know of different time zones around the globe? Since explorations would take months, or even years, would they have been able to notice the shift in time?