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How common were spies in Medieval Europe? How were they recruited? What was their general duty? Are there any cases of double agents?

255 upvotes • elos_

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Historian of Reddit, how do you know who to trust when you saw two different interpretations of a same event? How do you compromise between the two?

255 upvotes • behyeefatt

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In a talk I saw recently, David Graeber implies that (at least one) Native American Culture found by Europeans could be the byproduct of a revolutionary ideology that brought down earlier civilizations in the area. Is there any evidence to support this?

255 upvotes • [deleted]

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Why didn't colonizers/explorers/conquistadors died from local diseases like local population died from the diseases brought by the former on their boats?

255 upvotes • CrazybutSolid

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What was European cooking like before the introduction of Asian spices?

255 upvotes • MonoAmericano

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Are Alaska Natives' issues with depression and suicide modern, or have the communities always struggled with high depression and suicide rates?

255 upvotes • [deleted]

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In Assassin’s Creed, Saracen guards speak in Arabic, and Turkish. How diverse were the Saracen armies during the Third Crusades?

255 upvotes • Alpy94

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Where does most of our imagery and lore of the devil come from? I heard Dante's Inferno and Paradise lost play a huge role. Is that true?

255 upvotes • J2quared

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Would ancient rowers (like on triremes) have switched sides to avoid asymmetrical muscular/skeletal development, or would they have "specialized" as port or starboard rowers?

255 upvotes • veritate_valeo

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Besides having a very large nose, in 1515 Francis I of France fought against Pope Julius II in the War of the League of Cambrai. Being a Roman Catholic himself, ruling over a Roman Catholic country, how was this reconciled with going to war with the pope?

255 upvotes • SteveLithops

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How common were spies in Medieval Europe? How were they recruited? What was their general duty? Are there any cases of double agents?	255	elos_
Historian of Reddit, how do you know who to trust when you saw two different interpretations of a same event? How do you compromise between the two?	255	behyeefatt
In a talk I saw recently, David Graeber implies that (at least one) Native American Culture found by Europeans could be the byproduct of a revolutionary ideology that brought down earlier civilizations in the area. Is there any evidence to support this?	255	[deleted]
Why didn't colonizers/explorers/conquistadors died from local diseases like local population died from the diseases brought by the former on their boats?	255	CrazybutSolid
What was European cooking like before the introduction of Asian spices?	255	MonoAmericano
Are Alaska Natives' issues with depression and suicide modern, or have the communities always struggled with high depression and suicide rates?	255	[deleted]
In Assassin’s Creed, Saracen guards speak in Arabic, and Turkish. How diverse were the Saracen armies during the Third Crusades?	255	Alpy94
Where does most of our imagery and lore of the devil come from? I heard Dante's Inferno and Paradise lost play a huge role. Is that true?	255	J2quared
Would ancient rowers (like on triremes) have switched sides to avoid asymmetrical muscular/skeletal development, or would they have "specialized" as port or starboard rowers?	255	veritate_valeo
Besides having a very large nose, in 1515 Francis I of France fought against Pope Julius II in the War of the League of Cambrai. Being a Roman Catholic himself, ruling over a Roman Catholic country, how was this reconciled with going to war with the pope?	255	SteveLithops