And in what ways did Hinduism and Buddhism influence places outside of India?

And to add on; What were some of the ways in which trade and religion contributed to the increasing interaction between India and other proximate regions such as east Africa, Arabia and east Asia?

I recently came across a quote by Luther which reads ‘No one can become a theologian unless he becomes one without Aristotle’ [Immo theologus non fit nisi id fiat sine Aristotele] (LW 31, 12; WS 1, 226:16 (no.44)). What was the deal?

I'm wondering if they had any tools or techniques that aren't as well known as conventional survival techniques (such as rubbing together of wood) or any that have been lost to time. Even any that you think might be interesting and unusual. Any thoughts?

I know other Republics existed at the time, and Cromwell's Commonwealth was hardly a democratic Republic, but how did the major players of Europe (France, Austria, Spain, HRE, Poland etc) react to the overthrow of another Monarchy?

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The issue of the legacy of the American Civil War is a hot topic here in the American States, I'm wondering how people in England are taught about and view the legacy of the English Civil War. Has it changed much over time? Was it as decisive a topic one-hundred and fifty years after it happened? Is one side lauded and the other damned?

For some reason I feel like I have heard somewhere that Lincoln was Jewish. My friend said I was wrong, so we bet alcohol over who is right. So was Abraham Lincoln Jewish or not (aka who is buying the next round of booze)?

Were there places in ancient Rome (or Athens, Alexandria, or w/e) have places where they collected and displayed artifacts from the civilizations which came before them?

For example - It's obvious that the Romans fetishized Hellenistic Greek culture, which peaked centuries before the rise of Rome - Did they collect and show off authentic Greek artwork, or did they just appropriate the stylings and mythology for their own designs?

I saw some baking soda a few minutes ago and the logo struck me as something that could have been on a Soviet poster.

I am curious as to how long it took for a typical scribe in, say, a monastery, to hand write a medium-length manuscript. This is just the writing, and not the illumination or binding. I know that modern soferim usually complete a Sefer Torah in about a year to a year and a half. Is that a comparable length of time?

To avoid that favorite game of AskHistorians, Specify-The-Era, we will say the 13th century.

This thought originally came from a Dan Carlin episode about the Sea People. If I remember correctly one group's name was written "PLST." Some people today think it could have been pronounced Peloset, like an early version of Phillistine.

Who the PLST were doesn't really matter to this question though. How did the people who spoke these languages know what vowel sounds to make? Was it implied by the consonants? Like a P followed by an L always had a soft e sound between them?

I had mine out a couple of years ago, would I have been dead if born at any other time in history?

Those were big and important landspaces ripe for the taking. The West wouldn't have been able to defend them and Japan would control half of the British Commonwealth right now.