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Lake Ontario features a dense urban area in Canada, but not in the US; the other Great Lakes feature a host of US major cities/urbanized areas, but no Canadian ones. Is there a reason for this?

139 upvotes • _Booster_Gold_

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How did so many Midwest towns and locations end up with Native American names when racism and violence and erasure of Native culture was so prevalent?

139 upvotes • MontagueorCapulet

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I was having an arguement about the American Civil War and the other person told me northern landowners owned more slaves in the south than southerners

139 upvotes • dan_bailey_cooper

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How was Karl Marx viewed in the US before the Cold War?

139 upvotes • dielawn87

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Every time a layman asks a question about history, the awnser implies that they are asking the wrong questions. Why is that?

139 upvotes • I_Shave_Everyday

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Why were the Jews expelled from so many countries in Western Europe, and disliked by so many forming religions during the 16th and 17th centuries?

139 upvotes • majoragentorange

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In the video game Total War: Rome II, Greek factions have very limited if any access to archers, but stone slingers and javelinmen are widely available. Were bows unpopular as weapons of warfare in ancient Greece? If so, why?

139 upvotes • PassionateRants

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Could anyone explain how Germanic/Pagan peoples were Christianized so rapidly? Why was it so succesfull? In more practical terms, what might We imagine such a conversion looked like?

139 upvotes • [deleted]

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How did dresses come to be "women's clothing"?

139 upvotes • amazingfluentbadger

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Los Angeles has a large Armenian American population. Why Los Angeles, rather than an East Coast city? And how did there come to be such a sizeable Armenian population in the USA compared to Azeri or Georgian?

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Lake Ontario features a dense urban area in Canada, but not in the US; the other Great Lakes feature a host of US major cities/urbanized areas, but no Canadian ones. Is there a reason for this?	139	_Booster_Gold_
How did so many Midwest towns and locations end up with Native American names when racism and violence and erasure of Native culture was so prevalent?	139	MontagueorCapulet
I was having an arguement about the American Civil War and the other person told me northern landowners owned more slaves in the south than southerners	139	dan_bailey_cooper
How was Karl Marx viewed in the US before the Cold War?	139	dielawn87
Every time a layman asks a question about history, the awnser implies that they are asking the wrong questions. Why is that?	139	I_Shave_Everyday
Why were the Jews expelled from so many countries in Western Europe, and disliked by so many forming religions during the 16th and 17th centuries?	139	majoragentorange
In the video game Total War: Rome II, Greek factions have very limited if any access to archers, but stone slingers and javelinmen are widely available. Were bows unpopular as weapons of warfare in ancient Greece? If so, why?	139	PassionateRants
Could anyone explain how Germanic/Pagan peoples were Christianized so rapidly? Why was it so succesfull? In more practical terms, what might We imagine such a conversion looked like?	139	[deleted]
How did dresses come to be "women's clothing"?	139	amazingfluentbadger
Los Angeles has a large Armenian American population. Why Los Angeles, rather than an East Coast city? And how did there come to be such a sizeable Armenian population in the USA compared to Azeri or Georgian?	139	[deleted]