Its hard to say if they happened at all, let alone what they might have been potentionally influenced by.

Wrong, completely. Hitler was extremely sympathetic towards them as he grew up reading about Native Americans in widely popular books by Karl May. He actually used to send the copies of those books to his generals as "inspiration". He viewed Native Americans´ struggle to reclaim their ancestral homeland similar to Germans attempt to "regain their lebensraum".

Did they avoid them? Are there many indigenous people of Indian ocean islands? Or South America? Or are there a few isolated groups living in areas that are hard to reach and thus were spared the ethnic cleansing groups that lived in other areas faced. USA was colonized fully and the natives were slowly moved from east to the west as colonization continued while their way of life was slowly but steadily destroyed.

Because indigenous people of North America were not only conquered and colonized but ethnically cleansed and genocided.

Roman concrete is no lost knowledge. Its just million times repeated pop history myth.

There is a large portion of people that its very hard to tell, because not many people would be openly LGBT and claims to be part of LGBT was easily used to discredit/disparage someone (e.g. roman emperor Elagabalus and claims of him being trans). However there are much more clear example for the poet Sappho and prussian king Frederick the Great.

I mean its not direct, but its one of the examples I am even aware of. Ivan III of Russia married the princess of Byzantine empire, niece of the emperor Constantine and started to use the title of gosudar (Grand Prince). His grandson Ivan the Terrible used his connection to the emperor of Byzantine empire and crowned himself the first Russian tsar, called Moscow the "third Rome", started to use Byzantine symbols as his own etc.

All good. Etymology for different versions of names fo Germany are all over the place.

>Germany comes from a town in Deutschland.

Huh? Germany comes from the name Romans used for area north of Rhine, Germania.

Fans of composer Franz Liszt showed similar behaviour of hysteria and fan fanaticism in 1840s. Only partially related, but there is also Stendhal syndrom of fainting or hallucinating when experiencing peices of art work (writer Stendhal experienced it when visiting Florence basilica).

They correct it to make sense, but its hard to draw a line for when this stuff still makes sense and when it starts breaking the suspension of disbelief. It doesnt even have to be different language. All american group in america has sentence "His english is pretty good for a foreigner". What do you do if you dub the movie? Do you keep the English, despite they all obviously speaking in the dubbed language, or do you change it, but those making a strange situation when company of Americans are talking about speaking completely foreign language in their country?

There is a scene in Saving Private Ryan where two of the characters speak Czech. Because I saw the movie dubbed in Czech as a teenager, I had no idea, because they changed their language to something else (honestly cant even remember what language it was).

As a someone from a European country, when red has been part of Christmas imagery before Pemberton´s grandparents were even born, no. Both red, green and gold are all related to christian imagery. It has nothing to do with Coca-Cola.

Use of red predates Coca-Cola by like 10 centuries. Coca-Cola popularized the exact image of Santa that exist right now, but they didnt come up with it, they just picked one that was good for their brand. Same with using red as a symbol of Christmas.

Thats why I said secretive and not secret. Thought it was self-explanatory.

Its like a fraternity for enlightened people. People whose goal is betterment of humanity, charity and similar things meet and discuss the best way to go about it. But since most of them were rich and powerful people and the fraternity thing meant that they were relatively secretive, there are billion conspiracies related to them and their actions.

Why would they?

I can recommend Robin´s Dunbar The Human story then. I also loved Graham Clarke, but that one is some good 40 years old now, if not more, so you can probably aim at something with more updated information.

Depends where do you want to start. Prehistory, going through paleolitic people and out hominid ancestors? Starting with oldest civilizations and some easy overview? Or just follow one country/region topic and its evolution over time?

No its bullshit. Romans used both IIII and IV and clocks did too centuries before Louis.

Usually, separating between what is tool is if you have to "work the tool". Early hominids know how to use stick or stones, but it wasnt until they started to sharpen the sticks and stones when we refered to it as tools, since they were not using stuff normaly found in nature, like certain animals can. This is the same thing.

I mean it in a way that you believe that historical Jesus is tied directly to the biblical Jesus. Mohammed its much more cleared example as with or without divine beliefs, we know about his actions and his direct followers. With Jesus its bit more complicated.

You will be amazed when it comes back next week. But seriously, its one of the best kinds of thread in here.

Mohammed or Jesus, depending on what level of historicity do you put on Jesus name.

Well problem is that its very complicated. Slovakia used to be part of Great Moravia and then it was conquered by Hungarians and was part of Hungary for more than 1000 years before it became part of independent Czechoslovakia. I would recommend to read through Slovakian National Revival, where true Slovakian national identity was born.

Depends how much do you want see "having a relationship" view as get laid. One British monarch abdicated so he could live with women he did love. Franz Ferdinand greatly ruined his position in Austria-Hungary so that he could marry his future wife.