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Did Rome really build pipes to funnel wine to Cologne? The Kaiserchronik states: "From Trier, an old fortified city that adorned Roman authority, the Romans sent wine a long distance under the earth in stone pipes to please all the lords who settled around Cologne. Great was the Romans' might!"

296 upvotes • [deleted]

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Why were the Americas named after Amerigo Vespucci’s first name and not his last?

296 upvotes • mmmmmmmicrowavee1

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Monday Methods: So, You’re A Historian Who Just Found AskHistorians…

296 upvotes • crrpit

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In the early 1900s, when a third of Argentineans and half of Buenos Aires was foreign-born, were there any programs similar to US "Americanization" campaigns? Did Argentinean identity develop easily despite personal disconnection from its founding myths and customs?

296 upvotes • TheCloudForest

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Did Homo sapiens have straighter or less crowded teeth in pre agricultural times?

296 upvotes • delicatearchcouple

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Why did German immigrants to USA go to the Midwest while Irish and Italians stayed on the east coast?

296 upvotes • MrLuigiMario

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Is it true that kings used to have sex in front of the court nobles?

296 upvotes • VeliVoy

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In the West, there's an assertion that modern Western societies follow the lineage of Ancient Rome and Greece, but isn't it more accurate that the modern West are descendants of the "Barbarians" of Northern Europe?

296 upvotes • Plaid_Tree

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How come it seems like Italians were such poor soldiers in WW2?

296 upvotes • Fidena

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Old religions are always talked about but never the periods of transition. It's always just, "these people believed this". What cultural or technological changes occured to motivated dying religions? How does that apply to modern religion?

296 upvotes • oneluckykid22

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Did Rome really build pipes to funnel wine to Cologne? The Kaiserchronik states: "From Trier, an old fortified city that adorned Roman authority, the Romans sent wine a long distance under the earth in stone pipes to please all the lords who settled around Cologne. Great was the Romans' might!"	296	[deleted]
Why were the Americas named after Amerigo Vespucci’s first name and not his last?	296	mmmmmmmicrowavee1
Monday Methods: So, You’re A Historian Who Just Found AskHistorians…	296	crrpit
In the early 1900s, when a third of Argentineans and half of Buenos Aires was foreign-born, were there any programs similar to US "Americanization" campaigns? Did Argentinean identity develop easily despite personal disconnection from its founding myths and customs?	296	TheCloudForest
Did Homo sapiens have straighter or less crowded teeth in pre agricultural times?	296	delicatearchcouple
Why did German immigrants to USA go to the Midwest while Irish and Italians stayed on the east coast?	296	MrLuigiMario
Is it true that kings used to have sex in front of the court nobles?	296	VeliVoy
In the West, there's an assertion that modern Western societies follow the lineage of Ancient Rome and Greece, but isn't it more accurate that the modern West are descendants of the "Barbarians" of Northern Europe?	296	Plaid_Tree
How come it seems like Italians were such poor soldiers in WW2?	296	Fidena
Old religions are always talked about but never the periods of transition. It's always just, "these people believed this". What cultural or technological changes occured to motivated dying religions? How does that apply to modern religion?	296	oneluckykid22