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So we’re watching The Return of the King and I have just one question...who would clean up the fields of dead bodies after a big battle?

6660 upvotes • JulioCesarSalad

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Gengis Khan and Attila the Hun were ambitious conquerors who are seen in a very dark light in popular culture. Alexander the Great, a similarly ambitious conqueror, is highly regarded as a brilliant military leader. Is this an eurocentric bias or is there a deeper reason?

6657 upvotes • Phoenix_667

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Notre-Dame de Paris is burning.

6644 upvotes • sunagainstgold

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I am a historian of Classical Greek warfare. Ask Me Anything about the Peloponnesian War, the setting of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

6619 upvotes • Iphikrates

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The Nazis deliberately allowed diseases to spread amongst concentration camp inmates as part of their extermination efforts, did this policy ever backfire and lead to large numbers of sick guards?

6588 upvotes • username_entropy

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USA which is considered fairly advanced in women rights have never seen a women leader, but countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh which are considered to be backward in women rights have had women prime minsters. Why is this so?

6572 upvotes • Harshbro9760

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A common trope in RPGs is very aggressive fauna. as in if you come across a wolf. that wolf will fight you to the death. How concerned would a medieval traveler be of encountering aggressive wildlife?

6535 upvotes • science32

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It is 1943, I am a high school teacher in Paris, France. We have been under German occupation for 2 years now. How has my teaching curriculum changed under Nazi rule?

6534 upvotes • Madd-Nigrulo

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Why isn’t the genocide of Native American’s spoken of in the same vein as the Jewish Holocaust?

6527 upvotes • Tefloncon

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I love this Sub

6525 upvotes • BobmaiKock

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
So we’re watching The Return of the King and I have just one question...who would clean up the fields of dead bodies after a big battle?	6660	JulioCesarSalad
Gengis Khan and Attila the Hun were ambitious conquerors who are seen in a very dark light in popular culture. Alexander the Great, a similarly ambitious conqueror, is highly regarded as a brilliant military leader. Is this an eurocentric bias or is there a deeper reason?	6657	Phoenix_667
Notre-Dame de Paris is burning.	6644	sunagainstgold
I am a historian of Classical Greek warfare. Ask Me Anything about the Peloponnesian War, the setting of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey	6619	Iphikrates
The Nazis deliberately allowed diseases to spread amongst concentration camp inmates as part of their extermination efforts, did this policy ever backfire and lead to large numbers of sick guards?	6588	username_entropy
USA which is considered fairly advanced in women rights have never seen a women leader, but countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh which are considered to be backward in women rights have had women prime minsters. Why is this so?	6572	Harshbro9760
A common trope in RPGs is very aggressive fauna. as in if you come across a wolf. that wolf will fight you to the death. How concerned would a medieval traveler be of encountering aggressive wildlife?	6535	science32
It is 1943, I am a high school teacher in Paris, France. We have been under German occupation for 2 years now. How has my teaching curriculum changed under Nazi rule?	6534	Madd-Nigrulo
Why isn’t the genocide of Native American’s spoken of in the same vein as the Jewish Holocaust?	6527	Tefloncon
I love this Sub	6525	BobmaiKock