I know that both the Babylonian and Assyrian empires were very wide spread so the possibility is definitely there, I'm however more interested if the Mesopotamians wrote anything about the Egyptians and vice versa. Thanks to anyone that takes the time to answer.

I’m looking for history books to read about the Pacific Northwest. I’m particular interested in the history of Washington State, the culture/history of native tribes in the region, the development of fur trapping/settling, and the ecology/geology of the region.

I am a descendant of Minamoto no Yoshitoki, the (5th or 6th) son of Minamoto no Yoshiie.

(Ishikawa-Genji)

I have been having an incredibly hard time finding anything about him. There have only been about 3 instances online where i can even find anything about his existence. On one family tree drawing, the branch where my family descends from Yoshitoki was written smaller than the other sons names. On all other family trees, his name was not written at all.

Was he a real person? And if so, what did he do in order to get most proof of his existence erased?

So I've recently read the Iliad and I was surprised to find out that many of the well known scenes are not actually in it. There's no Judgment of Paris or Achilles being killed by an arrow to the heel or a Trojan Horse. This kind of disappointed me and I was looking for poems that actually include these scenes. I found out about the Epic Cycle and how all of the poems from it except for the Iliad and the Odyssey are essentially lost. We have summaries of them but we don't have the actual poems. So I've been thinking, are there any other ancient poems/epics that try to retell the stories told in the lost poems of the Epic Cycle? This is what I was able to come up with so far:

Titanomachy => Theogony by Hesiod

Cypria => ???

Iliad

Aeithiopis => Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus

Little Iliad => Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus

Iliou persis => Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus

Nostoi => ???

Odyssey

Telegony => ???

Are these good substitutions in your opinion? I don't care too much about the "quality" of the poems so to speak, I am mostly just concerned whether these substitute poems tell the same story, with slight alterations at worst. Also, can you think of any substitute poems for Cypria, Nostoi and Telegony?

Considering that the Mamluks were mostly Turks coming from the steppes, similar to many of the largest and most martial focused empires in history like the Mongol, the Timurid and the Ottoman empires, and the fact that the Mamluks were the closest thing to an elite professional army in the 13-15th centuries (before the Janissaries which, to my understanding, are pretty similar in concept) it seems weird to me that they didn't go on massive conquering campaigns.

I've occassionally seen this claim mentioned online with an addition that conversion to Christianity was especially appealing to Roman women rather than men. How much truth is in this claim?

Did the Ottoman Empire wipe all of them out, or what? I know that many people in Greece are Turkish and have become Turkish. But doesn't that mean Greece should be Turkish too??? Aren't Greeks technically Turkish????

Most of Africa was colonized by European powers, but as far as I know, South Africa is the only nation whose European occupants just kept living there throughout the decolonization of the rest of the continent, and not only that but further entrenched themselves by implementing apartheid. Why did this go so differently from every other African country?

Lettuce has 5 calories (41 kj) per cup (36g). For that same portion, celery has 14 (58.8 kj). Eggplant; 25 (105 kj). Considering every human needs ~1,800 calories (7560 kj) daily to survive and food used to be harder to come by the pre-modern world (or at least required a lot more energy to harvest), why did societies bother putting energy into raising these crops at all to the point that we still have them today? (though at least today in rich nations that struggle with obesity rates, they offer options for weight loss diets). Or did they just enjoy the taste and allocated some energy into these seemingly frivolous crops? Because it would take a f***ton (scientific measurement term) of lettuce to keep one person alive for one day. Thank you!

Did they refer to one another as Saxons or were there other terms? Did they consider one another related and have any significant or noteworthy contact or were they indifferent to one another?

Didn't they realize imperialism and expansionism were cruel practices? I am speaking about expansionism through war.

I have read that secretary of state Henry Kissinger, while officially on business in Pakistan, went to Beijing in secret in order to arrange what would become Nixon's well-known 1972 diplomatic visit to China.

What I've never quite understood is, and sorry if this is stupid, but why couldn't he simply call/telegram China directly and propose a meeting? Why did Nixon/Kissinger feel that they had to go through Pakistan?

Given the ongoing border clashes of the Sino-Soviet split, wouldn't China naturally have been open to entertain diplomatic discussions with the only other superpower of the time, regardless of whether the offer came through Pakistan or anywhere else?

I was homeschooled on Lost Cause propaganda (I was literally forced to read biographies of Confederate generals written by a Ladies Memorial Association president in the late 19th century) and I'm looking for books that will give me an accurate view of Civil War history.

I'm looking for a good, in-depth biography of Stonewall Jackson. All the ones I can find so far look like they're either influenced by Lost Cause nostalgia (the description for Gwynne's Rebel Yell calls a man who fought for the Confederacy "a remarkable American hero") or more military history-oriented, focusing on the in-depth details of his battles and military movements.

There also seems to be a subgenre of books that are about the construction of the Jackson myth, which are probably less obnoxious than the Lost Cause books but seem to be less about Jackson himself.

I'm not saying I want a book that trashes him as a one-dimensional monster--I know all human beings are complex people. But I want a book that treats him like a human being and not an "American hero."

tl;dr: Is there any in-depth biography that just presents a picture of the man as he was and not the imaginary perfect White Christian saint?

If so, how did they explain radiation poisoning?

Are crowns exclusive to monarchies?

Even after most nations became republics and democracies, why did the elected leaders stop wearing crowns?