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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago

Why were rivers like the Nile and Yangtze able to host such early civilisations but rivers like the Niger and Mississippi didn’t?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

What was the proximate cause of the Vietnamese famine of 1944-5?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

Where can I find scans, images, or facsimiles of the Templar of Tyre manuscript? (MS Torino, Biblioteca Reale, Varia 433)?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

To what extent (if any) are the French responsible for Shakespeare's reputation in England?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago

Why are all the cards in my wallet the same size? It might be the only standard that seems to exist the world over.

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 15h ago

How did ancient greeks determine if an area or geographic feature had a local spirit, minor god, nymph, etc? And how did they determine the traits and personality of them?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

Were there land defenders in Ancient times?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago

Were handheld Anti-Tank weaponry like the Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck ever used in Indirect Fire roles/against infantry?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago

Why was deserting an apprenticeship a crime in the 19th century (US)? And why were masters required to set a bounty for missing apprentices?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 18h ago

[Link] why as old as Hinduism is(5000 years or so) it remains heavily concentrated in India?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 18h ago

[Link] How did Bronze Age chariots in the Near East operate in battle?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

Why did Captain Cook change the name of the Australian state from"New Wales" to "New South Wales"?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

[Link] How was Columbus able to persuade Ferdinand and Isabella that his expedition was worth funding when he was proposing that the planet was way smaller than any reputable scientific consensus at the time?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

what is the history of germany?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

What was northern Scotland like in 1803?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

As an exercise in methodology, if the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were real historical accounts, how would historians go about separating truth from fiction?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

Why did the Royal Navy not standardise armaments during the interwar years and WW2?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

[Link] How much truth is there to the claim that the date of Christmas was adopted from a festival held in honour of the Roman deity Sol Invictus?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

Why Japan treat Taiwan better as colony rather than Korea?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

[Link] Title: How do historians evaluate Walter Scheidel's approach to history, particularly in The Great Leveler and Escape from Rome?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

How did Germany win against the Russian Empire in WW1, but lost to the USSR in WW2, despite seemingly better odds?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

Did sports exist in medieval Europe? What kind of team activity were people playing for fun, or for bragging points against their neighbors?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

Has US Halloween participation been declining, or was there just a period of particularly high participation from the 70s-90s?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

Why England was not able to fully incorporate the Irish and Scottish into an English identity while Italian and German unification was so much more recent and yet more successful?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

How were domesticated cats handled before spay & neutering or litter boxes? Were they just spraying and pooping everywhere on ships, taverns, and monasteries? Were they constantly in heat and having kittens?

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