From what I understand, during the time Jesus existed, a significant number of prophets popped up every year. I also understand that at the time, he was not very popular or well known. He mostly became popular after his death. What made this happen and why did people believe him over several others?

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Catching the last part of my roommate's Titanic, I saw the ship's captain choosing to go down with the ship.

When did this act become the honorable thing to do for ship commanders, and why?

I know a good amount of german history but why didn't a German kingdom or after 1871 the German empire annex Denmark?

I am looking to find differences in society between communist countries and the rest of the world which was capitalist. The main difference I intend to look at is the United States vs USSR Society. All help would be great. This is for a research report. A link to sources, books, articles, and so on would be great. Thanks!

I seem to recall a Cracked article (unreliable source I know) that deemed Sylvester Stallone's monologue at the end of Rambo as an overblown piece of fiction, but I know there are numerous other mentions about vietnam vets being spit on and beaten, etc.

With about 5 or 6 weeks until the AP test, I need to study...hard. What books have you found to be the most helpful?

Tips on what/how to study any material on the AP exam would be greatly appreciated!

In my research, I've found suggestions that Baader-Meinhof were a sort of Bonnie&Clyde of their time in Berlin/Germany at large. Was there a cult following back then? Is there still?

Most sources take a clearly left/right stance in discussing the Red Army Faction as either freedom fighters, murdered by their government, or suicidal terrorists. I'm curious as to the general German opinion of the RAF and the Baader-Meinhof affair.

Why did the natives in North America build large ships to travel the oceans?

I know a lot about the DPRK and South Korea, but I've always never understood the "Juche Doctrine" From what I've read, it works best in the North because of the history it has on the Korean people. What exactly is it? Why is it so powerful?

A friend of mine noticed that Japan's stamps are rarely cutesy compared to other forms of media, and I recall my father (who is Japanese) regarding the postal service in high esteem. What's the history behind the mail in Japan?

Are all modern western European aristocratic families descended from one or another Germanic tribe? Did any Roman aristocratic family survive the fall of Rome and continue to today? Does this question grossly oversimplify the relationship between the Germanic tribes and Rome?

Edit: Thanks for the replies everyone!

I'll first give you what motivates this question since that might better help you answer what I'm really interested in. A really general and silly explanation of in physics is that things will be happening when two systems in contact are at different energy levels. ^1 Simply put, I'm interested in macro phenomenon, involving conscious, rational, autonomous beings that reflect something similar to that general explanation of physics. So the first thing that came to mind is that wars would occur when two systems which exist at different economic standings ( measured by GDP or what ever standard fits the economic system) a war will break out. So obviously there are many things wrong with that simple minded statement and more explicit models like conflict over shared resources might better explain specific circumstances but what I've learned about different time periods, such as European imperialism or general empire dynamics -such as expansion, over extension and then collapse-- seem to hint at a relationship between the physical concept and historical evidence.

So what i'm really interested in is research investigating this relationship but more specifically sets of data contrasting occurrences of war with economic conditions.

[1] I didn't want to go into more detail because it didn't seem necessary and I thought this description would reach most people easily.

Also, would this vary between armies? What about in the case of me suffering from shell shock?