Can obsidian be turned into a sword like weapon? >!with /u/400-Rabbits!<

"In popular culture, polytheistic gods are presented as "The god of _______." How accurate is this and how applicible is it to different ancient pantheons?", >!response by /u/Seasquatch!<

"John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor in his day. What plays did he perform in? Are any of them still well known today? Did he originate any roles and were any theater troupes reluctant to perform plays associated with him after the Lincoln assassination?", >!response by /u/HM2112!<

"The great Roman general Scipio Africanus liked to dance, "not shuffling about in the present style...but in the old-fashioned manly style in which men danced at times of games and festivals, without loss of dignity even if their enemies were watching them." Do we have any idea what this looked like?", >!response by /u/ecphrastic!<

What are some instances of non-European influences on early-modern European philosophy? >!from /u/White___Velvet!<

Was indirect trade between the Vikings and China (or the Far East in general) exhaustive ? >!by /u/textandtrowel!<

"In medieval films, barrels and wooden crates seem to be a ubiquitous "filler" prop. How common would it actually have been to transport or store goods in such containers en masse in the European Middle Ages?", >!response by /u/LXT130J!<

Regarding the Ming Dynasty Chinese Civil Service Exam; Was really that Effective? Did it truly help to consolidate power in the Bureaucracy? What were some of the negative effects? >!response by /u/jstorrobinhood!<

"Could a married woman become a nun without her husband's approval in 1100-1500s Western Europe? For instance, to run-away from domestic violence.", >!response by /u/jellolegos!<

"In The Knights of the Cross (1918) by Henryk Sienkiewicz, he mentioned that the Teutonic Order having a Postal System around 1400-1405, how true was this statement?", >!response by /u/noble_devil_boruta!<

In 400 AD Rome hosted a population of well over a million people, 200 years later the population of the city was counted in low tens of thousands. So, was there just a gigantic empty ghost town located in the center of Italy? What happened to all that infrastructure? >!featuring /u/kirino_imouto!<

In Ken Follett’s “World Without End” he writes that when medieval people would travel on roads they would use a system where they would run for twenty paces, then walk for twenty paces, and so on. Is this accurate? >!answer from /u/DogfishDave!<

Why were there no sanctions/ consequences for Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1951, when Tibet declared independence from China in 1913? >!by /u/Paulie_Gatto!<