/r/askhistorians
In Ancient Rome, would you be able to get a drink to go from a street vendor? If so, would you have to give back the “cup”?
Mark as read: Add to a list
Did medieval/early modern Europe has an institution similar to “the wall” in Game of Thrones? Basically, a place the disgraced/criminals could go live their lives outside of society instead of facing standard punishments like execution?
Mark as read: Add to a list
In 1945 German scientist Gernot Zippe was captured by the Soviet Union where he led the development of centrifuge-based uranium enrichment. In 1956 he was allowed to leave and later recreated the superior Soviet enrichment technology for the US. Why did the Soviet Union permit Zippe to leave?
Mark as read: Add to a list
Historian Matthew Restall writes that the modern world was built on “Holocaustic levels of slaughter and enslavement of non-European peoples”. Is this accurate or over-simplistic?
Mark as read: Add to a list
I was told by a number of chefs and a history prof that Europe didn't have restaurants until after the French Revolution when the cooks of the nobility found themselves without a job. Any truth to this?
Mark as read: Add to a list
Were past cultures as casually accepting of paedophilia as they're often believed? (Pedastry, young marriages, etc) If so, when did paedophilia come to be as it is now?
Mark as read: Add to a list
Mark as read: Add to a list
Mark as read: Add to a list
Mark as read: Add to a list
Mark as read: Add to a list