Hello, I am a High School student from Mexico. In my school we are given an assignment to research the careers we might like to study, this assignment includes an interview with someone who has studied one of the careers you are considering. I was hoping someone would be able to give me a hand by answering a couple of questions. If you prefer this questions to remain private please message your answers to me instead of posting in the thread.

What's your name? (If you wish to remain anonymous don't answer this)

Where and what did you study? Why did you decide to study it?

Which courses could I expect to be imparted if I study history?

Which are the key characteristics you consider are important or necessary to study history?

Which would you consider to be the best universities to study history?

What advantages do you believe studying history has?

Aside from teaching, where can a historian find work?

Where have you worked in the past or where are you currently employed?

And finally What are some suggestions you would give to someone planning to study history?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this. To the mods, I don't know if this type of thread breaks subreddit rules, if it does please delete it and if possible guide me or put me in contact with someone who can help me with this.

I know "dogs" are a recent happening, but did the concept of owning a pet occur before that?

Hitler didn't seem to have any qualms invading other non-belligerent countries, so why did Switzerland, especially given its split ethnic background, get spared the blitz?

The Cherokees appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect their land from being seized by Georgia, their ruling was that Georgia laws did not apply to the Cherokee Nation. However Andrew Jackson said something along the lines of,"John Marshall has made his decision... Now let him enforce it."

Why was the Supreme Court so powerless in such a situation? And if they did have power to do something, why didn't they?

I don't know if this question actually fits the bill for this sub-Reddit, but I have been reading the book and would love to get a feel for how it was received by the academic historical community.

I keep thinking Olympian makes sense because it's a bit beyond Greco-Roman. There was a central philosophy to the stories, and there are many similar characters. Melqart is Herakles who is Hercules, and the first in that list was a Phoenician/Carthaginian god.

Phoenician, Anatolian, Greek, Italian (South more Greek, central more Etrurian) and Phoenician colonies in Spain and North Africa seemed to share the same religion.

While all these cultures owe their literacy to the Egyptians and Mesopotamians / Babylonian cultures I suspect that their religions and myths were more distant. Certainly some legends and gods were shared with these people, but not as many.

I find it lazy when people say the Romans copied the Greek faith because it wasn't quite the same thing. Certainly the Aeneid was an attempt to make a Roman Odyssey but the south of Italy was heavily populated by Greeks, but the Romans had unique myths, the Italian peoples certainly did, and the two-faced god Janus is distinctly Italian which no one seems to remember.

I get the impression this religion has been poorly defined, whereas the Scandinavian and Nordic religion has been rather clearly defined in recent years and it's links to Germanic and Slavic paganic faiths are well known and understood. I'd also be interested to here where these faiths intersect with 'mediterranean' paganism

When I try to find a generalized version of this 'Olympian' or Mediterranean' faith I get Hellenic neopaganism. Admittedly when one looks up the Nordic variety one finds Odinistic neopaganism. I'm interested in the study and definition of the old paganism, not how it is expressed and ritualized today.

I've always assumed they were puppets if the Soviet Union is that the case?

I understand that the discovery of calculus made calculations in areas of physics and math vastly easier, but these calculations still require working with irrational numbers and repeating decimals. Before calculators, how were people able to accurately compute values?

I haven't been able to find much on the internet about the differences between the two terms but that a province has a relationship with the land and a colony merely uses the land. However, I'm not sure if that is correct.

If I could be pointed in a more appropriate direction, that would also be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for any help or insight.

For example, if I were initially stationed in a "quiet" sector would I spend the entirety of the war there, or would my unit be rotated into an area with heavier fighting?

Try to fix the confusion - Considering Britain had a military alliance to protect Poland in 1939. All of you guys know that they declared war on Germany when the Germans invaded Poland but not the Soviet Union when they invaded two weeks later.

So a few years ago, in high school, I was in a Latin language class. I was taught that the language had died out. We then started to learn words like "car" 'train" and "telephone". How is this possible since the latin language died out well before these inventions.

I'm particularly interested in the period of Roman persecution, the conversion of Constantine, and the Great Schism. I'd like to start with a book that covers all of these and more. Can someone recommend one?

I've been reading up on the early formations of the Catholic Church and became fascinated with the Montanist movement. They seemed to be a rather prolific sect of the church based in evangelism and prophesy. However, when trying to research into the actual teachings/writings, they all seemed to be from hundreds of years after the movements' end and used as an illustration of blaspheme. Are there any surviving text of actual Montanist teachings/divination left? Or were these purged along with their excommunication?

Edit: Spelling. Apparently Steve Jobs' autocorrect didn't like them either.

I hear many things that all empires collapse inwards, it's too difficult to govern such a large area, too many cultures.

Perhaps it is the conflict, Nazi Germany for instance couldn't proceed invasions because of the enemy force.

So I want to know why older empires such as the roman empire fell and how empires that began in the 1800 (British etc) ended up falling apart.

The Ethiopian Empire is said to have the distinction of being one of two African states that survived the scramble for Africa. A lot in developmental economic theory points to a history of colonialism, both overt and discreet, in explaining why nations that have been colonized are still significantly poorer than nations that colonized.

Ethiopia was never incorporated in a European Empire, with the exception of being partially occupied by Italy in WWII. Yet Ethiopia is one of the poorest nations in the world and Africa (6th or 7th last time I checked).

In what ways was Ethiopia exploited by western powers to make it as poor as it is? What in Ethiopia's history can be said to be a contributing factor in making it poor?

I am aware that proxy warfare and several coups occurred during the Cold War. Is Ethiopia's poorness better explained by events that happened in the second half of the 20th century, or does it have nothing to do with a colonial past?