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to r/AskHistorians by grapp
4 months ago
did the Antonine Plague reach the British countryside or did the fact the rural celts weren't particularly well integrated into the Roman society in the second century protect them?
to r/AskHistorians by Tatem1961
4 months ago
How did Kabuki go from an all female art form to an all male art form? And when did it lose it's prostitution angle?
to r/AskHistorians by Tatem1961
4 months ago
Why did European Christians think Jewish men menstrated?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
4 months ago
Ben Franklin's pursuit of personal virtue and advice in that direction is legendary, but his later life seem dissolute. Should we read him as a straight-up hypocrite? Was his virtue always performative?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
4 months ago
To what degree did American pressure and promises of military protection/trade lead the British Empire to free its colonies?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
4 months ago
When did it become considered unacceptable for upper class women to hire wet nurses?
to r/AskHistorians by Tatem1961
4 months ago
Why do we call the rulers of Greek city states Tyrants, instead of Kings?
to r/AskHistorians by Tatem1961
4 months ago
Why don't we see a lot of Spartan philosophers, poets, artists, etc. even though they were all rich enough to pursue leisurely activity? Why does leisure seem to be associated so strongly with exercise in Sparta?
to r/AskHistorians by screwyoushadowban
4 months ago
When I was a kid I only ever heard about the "Qing/Manchu Conquest of China". Now everyone uses the phrase "Ming-Qing Transition". Why the change? No one calls the violent conquest of England "the Norman Transition".
in China
to r/AskHistorians by J2quared
4 months ago
How aware were African kingdoms of the condition and treatment of enslaved peoples in the Americas?
to r/AskHistorians by George_S_Patton_III
4 months ago
French Revolutionary John-Paul Marat is depicted as always being in a bathtub due to a skin condition. Do we know what afflicted him? What was understood about it at the time? How were dermatological conditions typically treated at the time?
to r/AskHistorians by td4999
4 months ago
How did Karl Marx come to be a foreign correspondent for the *New York Tribune*? Did he ever comment on American slavery before its abolition (it was an abolitionist paper)?
in New York City
to r/AskHistorians by megami-hime
4 months ago
Do we know if Old Persian represents the language that ancient Persians would have regularly spoken, or if it was a formal/archaic register of the spoken language?
to r/AskHistorians by megami-hime
4 months ago
Why is the Egyptian revolt of Pestubastis III against Darius I not recorded in the Behistun Inscription while other revolts were?
in Egypt
to r/AskHistorians by megami-hime
4 months ago
Was the late Achaemenid Empire so heavily reliant on Greek mercenaries as Greek sources imply, or is this just a bias of the sources?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
7 months ago
What did American retirement look like before Social Security? Did people work till they died? Were working-class elderly people dying in the streets? Were families/churches able to support the elderly because people died much younger?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
7 months ago
Fig trees may have been domesticated a thousand years before wheat. Could fruit have driven urbanization/civilization, or was this a prelude that didn't affect society's much?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
7 months ago
Did the world balk when the US founding fathers declared that the equality of men was self-evident? Did anyone push back on the claim? Was it a sort of niche philosophical position, or widely regarded as true?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
7 months ago
Why would an educated 4th-century Roman in Gaul be able to speak well in Greek but only haltingly in Latin?
to r/AskHistorians by Tatem1961
7 months ago
What were Greece's plans for the Turkish Cypriot population had their attempted annexation of Cyprus had succeeded?
in Cyprus
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
7 months ago
How much time did it take to make a chainmail shirt?
to r/AskHistorians by Tatem1961
7 months ago
When did Italians stop raising and eating rodents?
to r/AskHistorians by RusticBohemian
7 months ago
Is presentism a problem in your field of history?
to r/AskHistorians by screwyoushadowban
7 months ago
How... useful are J. Paul Getty-type museums to historical research? I.e. some rich dude moves all the pretty-looking archaeologically-interesting stuff that he's bought over the years from his living room into a museum dedicated to himself?
to r/AskHistorians by nueoritic-parents
7 months ago
What’s the deal with Polish jokes?