According to historians, Caligula was an excellent natural actor and, recognizing danger, hid all his resentment towards Tiberius.

It is an “ instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency .” According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries “ the natives were robbed of more than half their natural span of life by undernourishment ”.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

According to Gyula Moravcsik, this title was a simple translation of Béla's Hungarian title úr, but other historians believe it comes from the ancient Greek despotes ( literally, the master ).

According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “ The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes.

According to some historians, the film was made to convey a " deliberate reaffirmation of American values ", although ones which seemed uncertain with respect to the future.

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

According to the modern scholar Pat Southern, however, some historians now see him in a more positive light.

According to science and technology historian Bert S. Hall: " It goes without saying, however, that historians bent on special pleading, or simply with axes of their own to grind, can find rich material in these terminological thickets.

According to Lee ( 1985 ), most historians have judged the Confederation to be weak and ineffective, as well as an obstacle to German nationalist aspirations.

According to Lawrence Stone, narrative has traditionally been the main rhetorical device used by historians.

" According to Strabo prior historians used Iberia to mean the country " this side of the Ἶβηρος ( Ibēros )" as far north as the Rhone river in France but currently they set the Pyrenees as the limit.

According to some historians, Jefferson understood he would have a better claim of ownership to the Pacific Northwest if the team gathered scientific data on animals and plants.

According to early Muslim historians, towns that surrendered without resistance and made treaties with the Muslims gave the Muslims permission to take their churches and synagogues.

According to the majority of modern historians, Thietmar made an error summarizing the chronicle of Widukind, placing the Gero raid there instead of the fighting that Mieszko conducted at that time against Wichmann the Younger.

According to the Jordanes ' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this " father of the Ostrogoths ", but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people.

According to historians like Charles Perry, the Arabs adapted noodles for long journeys in the 5th century, the first written record of dry pasta.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was Greek by birth ; however this is uncertain, and is disputed by modern western historians arguing that the authors of Liber Pontificalis confused him with that of the contemporary author Xystus who was Greek student of Pythagoreanism.

According to Mehnert, the Soviets attempt to control academic historiography ( the writing of history by academic historians ) to promote ideological and ethno-racial imperialism by Russians.

According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".

According to several Western historians, Stalinist agricultural policies were a key factor in causing the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933, which the Ukrainian government now calls the Holodomor, recognizing it as an act of genocide.

According to Danish historians, no bynames at all have been given to Christian II in Danish historical tradition.

According to Newton himself and other historians of science, his Principia's first law of motion was the same as Aristotle's counterfactual principle of interminable locomotion in a void stated in Physics 4. 8. 215a19 – 22 and was also endorsed by ancient Greek atomists and others.

According to biographer McFeely, historians overwhelmingly agree that his intemperance at the time was a fact, though there are no eyewitness reports extant.

According to Finnish historians and political journalists, there were at least three reasons that Kekkonen clung on to the Presidency.

According to the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor, Muawiyah I, after capturing Rhodes sold the remains of the Colossus of Rhodes to a traveling salesman from Edessa.

According to Shi ' a doctrine, this was a clear violation of the treaty he made with Hasan ibn Ali, in which Muawiyah said he would not make his son his successor.

According to Shi ' a view, Muawiyah opposed Ali, out of sheer greed for power and wealth.

According to Sunni scholars Hasan stipulated that Muawiyah should follow the Qur ' an and the Sunnah, allow a parliament ( shura ) as regards the caliphate after his death and refrain from any acts of revenge.

According to Nicolaus of Damascus, Octavius wished to join Caesar's staff for his campaign in Africa but gave way when his mother protested.

According to one view, most people today live as citizens according to the liberal-individualist conception but wished they lived more according to the civic-republican ideal.

According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to " descend to the Merkabah " one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the Prophet Elijah in I Kings 18: 42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees.

According to Cicero the marriage caused a semi-scandal as Brutus failed to state a valid reason for his divorce from Claudia other than he wished to marry Porcia.

According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).

According to the tradition used in Virgil's Aeneid, Segesta was founded jointly by the territorial king Acestes ( who was son of the local river Crinisus by a Dardanian woman named Segesta or Egesta ) and by those of Aeneas ' folk who wished to remain behind with Acestes to found the city of Acesta.

According to the National Taxpayer Union website, Rhoads and a bipartisan group of Midwestern legislators wished to counter what they viewed as a trend toward big government continued by President Richard Nixon.

According to his will, Napoleon, who died in 1821, wished to be buried on the banks of the Seine.

( UTC ) According to published accounts, Senator Gervais said he hoped that " in this town we should find refuge under the wings of COLUMBIA ", for that was the name which he wished it to be called.

According to a CBS poll, 92 % of Panamanian adults supported the U. S. incursion, and 76 % wished that U. S. forces had invaded in October during the coup.

According to Pindar, the young Orestes was saved by his nurse Arsinoe ( Laodamia ) or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him.

According to the his son Alfred, Barry later disowned these early church designs of the 1820s and wished he could destroy them.

According to one account, Jourdan wished to renew the left attack, but Carnot, the engineer, considered the Wattignies plateau the key of the position and his opinion prevailed.

According to Oren, the use of this falsehood by Syria and Egypt further alienated the US and also critically worsened relations with the Soviet Union, which wished to avoid further escalation.

According to the supporters of the Siri Thesis Cardinal Siri received the majority vote in a papal conclave twice: in 1958 and 1963 ( even announcing after his acceptance that he wished to be known as Pope Gregory XVII ).

According to the source, Speight's faith had led to a change of heart towards the Indo-Fijian community, and that he wished to participate in the upcoming Fiji Week, a series of prayer meetings and multicultural programmes aimed at reconciling Fiji's ethnic communities, planned for the week of 4 October through 11 October.

According to The Silmarillion, Maeglin's mother, Aredhel, grew weary of Gondolin and wished to visit the sons of Fëanor she then wandered through Beleriand.

According to newspaper accounts, her body was found by her secretary and companion of ten years, Beulah Kinder, on her bed surrounded by flowers, as she had wished.

According to Wray, Kricfalusi believed, " very step after the storyboards weakens the process ", and that he " fought for the integrity of the storyboards ", and lengthened production time because he wished to salvage the quality of the series.

According to the Books of Samuel, the Jebusites still had control of Jerusalem at the time of King David, but David wished to take control of the city ; understandably the Jebusites contested his attempt to do this, and since Jebus was the strongest fortress in Canaan they gloated that even the blind and lame could defeat David's army ; an alternative, equally valid, translation of the Jebusite's statement is that they said David would have to defeat the blind and lame before anyone else.

According to him our coherent extrapolated volition is our choices and the actions we would collectively take if " we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, and had grown up closer together.

According to Froissart, while Joanna was heavily pregnant with Catherine she wished to have a bath but the doctors advised against it because they thought it to be too dangerous.

According to historical accounts, Abu Said wished to surrender to Don Pedro, but the conditions he offered were unclear.

According to Nennius, Gwrangon was King of Kent in the time of Vortigern, until Vortigern took away the kingdom and gave it to Hengist ; but Nennius is regarded as an untrustworthy source, and “ Gwrangon seems to have been transported by the story-teller into Kent from Gwent ” and “ is turned into an imaginary King of Kent, secretly disposed of his realm in favour of Hengist, whose daughter Vortigern wished to marry ” ( Wade-Evans 1938 ).