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What are your favorite historical hypotheses that have not yet been decidedly corroborated?

193 upvotes • elkresurgence

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Would getting into the school of Plato or Aristotle be of similar difficulty to getting into an Ivy League school today?

193 upvotes • diercksw

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After the triumph of William the Conqueror, many Saxon nobles left England, some of whom went to join the Varangian Guard, and others whom supposedly settled in the Crimea. Was/Is there any lasting cultural impact in the Black Sea region by this influx of Anglo-Saxons?

193 upvotes • ParkSungJun

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How prominent was drug use among British colonists settling in America? What drugs were available to them and how did they get them?

193 upvotes • ExoticKosher

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How did they manage mercenaries and auxiliaries in the ancient world with a language barrier?

193 upvotes • quietStoic

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When did the color red start meaning stop and the color green start meaning go?

193 upvotes • whereisspacebar

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Why powerful queen such Elizabeth I, Victoria, Isabel of Spain,Maria Theresa or Elisabeth of Russia never push reforms for women rights or talk about the situation of women?

193 upvotes • [deleted]

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How did MLK Jr. and Malcolm X relate to each other? Did they have great respect for each other, or view each other as misguided, or what? Were they friends, rivals, or just acquaintances?

193 upvotes • graaahh

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What did Alexios I Komnenos do differently to his predecessors that meant he began the Komnenian restoration rather than continued the decline of the Byzantine Empire?

193 upvotes • [deleted]

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Is “empire” a dead concept that went out of use sometime in the twentieth century or are there strong continuities between empires of the modern era (from about 1750) and present-day regional and global powers?

193 upvotes • Insanctified

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What are your favorite historical hypotheses that have not yet been decidedly corroborated?	193	elkresurgence
Would getting into the school of Plato or Aristotle be of similar difficulty to getting into an Ivy League school today?	193	diercksw
After the triumph of William the Conqueror, many Saxon nobles left England, some of whom went to join the Varangian Guard, and others whom supposedly settled in the Crimea. Was/Is there any lasting cultural impact in the Black Sea region by this influx of Anglo-Saxons?	193	ParkSungJun
How prominent was drug use among British colonists settling in America? What drugs were available to them and how did they get them?	193	ExoticKosher
How did they manage mercenaries and auxiliaries in the ancient world with a language barrier?	193	quietStoic
When did the color red start meaning stop and the color green start meaning go?	193	whereisspacebar
Why powerful queen such Elizabeth I, Victoria, Isabel of Spain,Maria Theresa or Elisabeth of Russia never push reforms for women rights or talk about the situation of women?	193	[deleted]
How did MLK Jr. and Malcolm X relate to each other? Did they have great respect for each other, or view each other as misguided, or what? Were they friends, rivals, or just acquaintances?	193	graaahh
What did Alexios I Komnenos do differently to his predecessors that meant he began the Komnenian restoration rather than continued the decline of the Byzantine Empire?	193	[deleted]
Is “empire” a dead concept that went out of use sometime in the twentieth century or are there strong continuities between empires of the modern era (from about 1750) and present-day regional and global powers?	193	Insanctified