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askhistorians is a community for academic answers to questions about history. Polls, opinions, bigotry, grammar pedantry, and personal insults will be removed.

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Doing a little bit of house cleaning, any comment or post that you think should be removed let me know here hopefully when new people come here it will give them reading material. (lemmy.world)
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We have changed rules here now. Please read sidebar. Answers must be comprehensive, question to a question must provide why asking. And a simple link is no longer acceptable. Problem with this? (lemmy.world)
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This sub got lazy and fat like the people on the ship in Wall-E with answers this should have and now will be to the best of our abilities a more lean community where people can come and have a resource for reading facts. If there are any questions please DM me or my mod mate for any questions. Thank you and we are still looking for new mods with hopefully specialized in certain aspects of history. This is a friendly place please be civil and kind but also direct. Thank you have a nice day. We will accept any critique to any question or answer for review if you think it is a problem. This will be the open post for questions about rule changes and every pertaining to this community. Please do not be afraid to contact US mods for any questions and will get back to you in roughly 6 to 12 hours.

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How did the US or any countries founding fathers come up with a democracy? The couldn't have pulled it out of thin air..was it a plan long before they came to the state? (lemmy.world)
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When Thomas Gray coined the term Ignorance Is Bliss and most poets, artists, or writers put themselves in their work. Do you think Gray was talking a little bit about himself or was it on society? (lemmy.world)
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Where did the Yakuza come from and who started it? What was the original goal? Did they have eyes on lasting this long? And getting into more commercial affairs? (lemmy.world)
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How was Europe allowed to carve up and exploit Africa at the Berlin Conference in a post-slavery era? (lemmy.world)
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Was the media/church/merchants/scientific community that promoted The Scramble for Africa as a noble cause unaware of the true motives of the European colonizers, or were they all complicit?

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When why or how was Mother and Father's day created? Why didn't they come up with like a kid day or a grandma day or something? (lemmy.world)
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How sure are we that Socrates even existed? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Did Black Beard really have an STD and they shot mercury up his penis in order to fix it? (lemmy.world)
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If you were a mod how would you promote or change this community to get more members or mod it differently or change it? (lemmy.world)
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Is it true the Mozart was deaf at a time and still played piano by the vibrations in the floor? If so was he that good he could just reach up from the floor and play the piano? (lemmy.world)
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Did the eastern Greeks of the Hellenistic age (Greco-Bactrians, Indo-Greeks, etc.) derive entirely from soldiers who accompanied Alexander, or were there later migrations to the new colonies? (lemmy.world)
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Why does it seem that presidents have no facial hair anymore? Last I remember was T. Roosevelt. (lemmy.world)
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The bad days of Herbert Hoover even compare to Trump? Or is Trump the worse.? (lemmy.world)
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Can in America or people who study the USA pick the definitive point we went from going up hill to snow boarding down hill and then came to a cliff which we have no clue what the bottom is? (lemmy.world)
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How did the Greeks or Romans choose their gods? Instead of the big names why not a god of shoes, or a god of non constapation or like the really small stuff? (lemmy.world)
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What did an Altar look like to sacrifice animals? Has there ever been a historically acurrate depiction one in pictures or movies? (lemmy.world)
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Is roadkill - animals killed accidentally by vehicles accidentally running them over - a modern thing, or did it used to happen in the pre-modern era? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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My assumption is that it's probably been a thing since roads, so possibly since at the least Ancient China, but I don't know, so I was curious if any experts know.

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Lets say for moments sake. That the bible and all fairy tails are real. My question is and I am going to hell for this. Why did god go from laying down laws in the old testament to a pussy in the new? (lemmy.world)
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Are there any good movies/tv shows that deals with the American Revolution and their war tactics and guerilla tactics? (lemmy.world)
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Did anything of note take place in the year 1 A.D.? (lemmy.world)
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I know it was Jesus' first birthday party, perhaps with the slightly older Judas Iscariot lurking in the background stuffing his pockets with party size Snickers bars while everyone else sang יום הולדת שמח, but apart from that.

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I always heard the joke when I was a kid when Russians revolt it means they are out of vodka. Is this true? There are a couple revolutions that happen just after a major famine? (lemmy.world)
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If so how did this get started?

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In the west how did they determine how much to put a bounty on someones head? Was it different in Roman times? Or was it pull a number out of thin air? (lemmy.world)
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For bonus points is there a big difference between how they did it then vs now? How so?

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Who were some of the Roman or other Dynasties "celebs"? And if they got in trouble or something would it be like the Britney Spears DWI crap or how fast would it travel? Any examples? (lemmy.world)
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How come nowadays America is so bad at combatting guerilla warfare? The whole country won the revolutionary war because the same tactic. Now a days we suck at it. What has changed since rev to 2day? (lemmy.world)
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