This is kind of a dumb question but I was wondering if the vikings had sort of like a main city or something that resembled a capital city? Thanks!

I'm an architecture student and I'm doing a paper about greece and Rome, about their politics, economy, culture, social,etc. and after that, see how that reflects on architecture, since it's a product of the context. The buildings that I'm writing about are the baths of Caracalla of Rome and the Parthenon of Greece. I'm having trouble finding what was the most built in Greece and why, I'm thinking it's Temples, but I'm not too sure, and even less sure why it's that (As a result of the context, of course). In Rome I'm not having trouble, but if any of you can expand my knowledge, I'd appreciate it.

I'm also curious about the way military strategy developed alongside technological improvements. If there isn't a book that covers A-Z my second choice for a timeframe would be from the 1700s-WW1. Thank you!

I was recently rewatching 1776 with a friend, and he remarked that it seemed like Adams and Franklin were idiots for pushing the agenda that they did, or at least reckless mavericks. His argument basically boiled down to:

1. The taxes weren't that bad. Certainly not worth a full-scale war.

2. The odds of actually winning seemed pretty slender. Some of the correspondences of George Washington, and some of the stories of how close he came to losing (getting trapped in New York, getting unlucky in his game of Yakety-Sax-across-the-Delaware) make it seem like the Revolutionary War being won by the Continentals was a massive fluke.

Is he right?

I'd love to read some historical accounts of future predictions, both dystopian and utopian perspectives.

For example, what did people in the 19th. century think the problems of the future would be? In the 17th? American or otherwise. What kind of history is that? Social History?

Thanks, Historians!

Just to clarify, these were terms I've heard on podcasts, probably either Hardcore History or The Ancient World.

Also, did the Macedonians speak Greek or something closely related? Because another podcast, The History of English, claims they didn't, and that would account for their "barbarian" status. If that's the case, what did they speak?

Just curious as I can't seem to find a single source on this, did egyptians have 'carbonated drinks ' ? I hope this doesn't sound as stupid as it felt writing it ...

I remember reading that nearly 40% of Virginian officers remained loyal to the Union, so what happened to them? Was there a Union 1st Virginia, and so on? Also, did they face difficulty with suspicion and mistrust from command/the administration?

At what point was it at its most common, and at what point did it stop? Or is it mostly an overblown stereotype?

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The Vikings are known for their glorification of violence and brutality, and yet the modern inhabitants of Scandinavian routinely score towards the top of the Global Peace Index.

I realize the amount of time between the two societies, but is there anything of interest that could have been responsible for this, such as an exodus of warriors into conquered lands, or is it pure coincidence?

I've heard that Julian the Apostate was the last pagan emperor of Rome, and after him there was no serious resistance to the spread of Christianity. Is this true? After he died, is there no evidence that pagans fought back against the growing power of Christianity?

I'm just wondering if there were maybe any pagan rebellions/riots/etc or short-lived attempts by pagan governors to restore the old religion, before Roman paganism was erased forever.

I've already formed a small answer, WW2. However, I'd like to know the exact reasons and causes, AND WW2 might not even have anything to do with it. Today, the US are widely known as the 'world police' whereas pre-WW2 they hardly ever paid attention to anything outside North America. What caused this?

It seems he was very much anti-communist once he came to power but that when he was a younger activist, he was very much a left leaning socialist. Did he change allegiances, or did he use the Communists in his country as scapegoats even though he had similar political beliefs?

Is there any documented case of someone sending a picture/diagram etc. via telegram?

A terrifying number of Jews died in Poland in General, much more than German Jews in fact. Did any perish under soviet occupation?

I am working on a project about Brazil and would appreciate some insight.