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You know the drill: this is the thread for all your history-related outpourings that are not necessarily questions. Minor questions that you feel don't need or merit their own threads are welcome too. Discovered a great new book, documentary, article or blog? Has your Ph.D. application been successful? Have you made an archaeological discovery in your back yard? Did you find an anecdote about the Doge of Venice telling a joke to Michel Foucault? Tell us all about it.
As usual, moderation in this thread will be relatively non-existent -- jokes, anecdotes and light-hearted banter are welcome.
Will we ever find alexabders tomb?
Where did the Xia people of China come from?
Edit. Follow-up - why is proto Chinese called Sino-tibetan, did the original Chinese come from Tibet?
Which school/trend in historiography do you follow (if any)? Positivist, Annales, Marxist, Post-Modern...? Do these visions on history still mater today?
What is the name of and purpose for the small shields seen affixed to breastplates of armour over the heart/ armpits of the renaissance era?
Your Weekly /r/askhistorians Recap
Friday, January 10 - Thursday, January 16
###Top 10 Posts
| score | comments | post |
|---|---|---|
| 4,141 | 220 comments | The Incas were able to construct one of the "greatest imperial states in human history" without money or markets. How did the Inca Empire function without money? |
| 3,466 | 150 comments | A lot of Americans talk about pride in their Scottish heritage or Irish heritage, but their seems to be very little talk of Welsh heritage. Why is this? |
| 3,194 | 441 comments | How did people drink so much alcohol in the past? |
| 3,003 | 114 comments | The First Haitian Empire banned all white people from the country, except Germans and Poles. Why Germans and Poles? |
| 2,189 | 63 comments | How long would it take to build a castle in Medieval England? |
| 2,085 | 117 comments | If I were a Roman citizen, fluent in Latin, in the time of Justinian the First, could I directly speak with a Roman from 700 years ago in the time of the Punic Wars? |
| 2,023 | 79 comments | So, it's 10,495 BCE and I'm on my way to Göbekli Tepe... wait, why am I on my way to Göbekli Tepe? |
| 1,946 | 60 comments | Did the Roman Empire have a flag? |
| 1,745 | 102 comments | A popular conception made about World War 1 is that the use of antiquated tactics combined with modern technology resulted in the devastation the war was well known for. In the Western Front, were trenches the most effective strategy for fighting, or was it 'antiquated' given the technology? |
| 1,744 | 31 comments | One of Oda Nobunaga’s fabled set-piece atrocities was the third siege of the Nagashima temple-fortresses. Supposedly he built up a wooden wall that he set on fire and burned the fortress and all it’s 20,000 defenders to ashes. Is this really plausible or just part of the Nobunaga legend? |
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Are leonidas remins in Sparta?
We’re any nazi’s killed by people resisting in the night of broken glass?
Was Joseph Stalin nicknamed "Uncle Joe" or "Papa Joe"?
When was The Great Pyramid really built?