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Did people in Rome and greater Italy during the Middle ages truly comprehend the age of the Imperial ruins that dotted the landscape?

1692 upvotes • Cptcutter81

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Why is garlic so prevalent in folklore?

1692 upvotes • Broboat_Girlymayn

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I've seen conspiracies asserting that U.S. prison systems are a legal continuation of slavery very often on Reddit. Does this idea have credible historical merit? What historically is the relationship between U.S. prisons' use of "free" labor and the end of slavery, if any?

1692 upvotes • UnchainedMimic

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How many people in the middle ages really followed the Christian instruction of not having sex before marriage?

1692 upvotes • Niklas-Schmucker

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What happened to Hitler's bank account?

1692 upvotes • benjaminikuta

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How was Costa Rica able to go from deforestation disaster to hotbed of environmentalism?

1691 upvotes • sunagainstgold

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I am an average person living near Jerusalem during the earliest periods of the Christian church. While I am of Jewish ancestry, I also recognize Jesus Christ as the Messiah. At what point would I cease to consider myself a Jew and see myself as only Christian?

1691 upvotes • UnRenardRouge

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Are anti-LGBTQ+ laws in African countries a colonial import? In other words, what do we know about (what we would today refer to as) LGBTQ+ individuals and communities in pre-colonial Africa communities.

1691 upvotes • Jtwil2191

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Hernan Cortes' conquest of Mexico relied heavily on alliances with native peoples, which he somewhat downplayed in his own accounts, did Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul similarly depend on allied Gallic tribes doing much of the fighting?

1691 upvotes • Ramses_IV

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How did the first generations of Germans born after WW2 react to coming of age and realizing that their parents generation may have participated in things that were nearly universally agreed to be horrible atrocities?

1691 upvotes • Eat-A-Torus

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did people in Rome and greater Italy during the Middle ages truly comprehend the age of the Imperial ruins that dotted the landscape?	1692	Cptcutter81
Why is garlic so prevalent in folklore?	1692	Broboat_Girlymayn
I've seen conspiracies asserting that U.S. prison systems are a legal continuation of slavery very often on Reddit. Does this idea have credible historical merit? What historically is the relationship between U.S. prisons' use of "free" labor and the end of slavery, if any?	1692	UnchainedMimic
How many people in the middle ages really followed the Christian instruction of not having sex before marriage?	1692	Niklas-Schmucker
What happened to Hitler's bank account?	1692	benjaminikuta
How was Costa Rica able to go from deforestation disaster to hotbed of environmentalism?	1691	sunagainstgold
I am an average person living near Jerusalem during the earliest periods of the Christian church. While I am of Jewish ancestry, I also recognize Jesus Christ as the Messiah. At what point would I cease to consider myself a Jew and see myself as only Christian?	1691	UnRenardRouge
Are anti-LGBTQ+ laws in African countries a colonial import? In other words, what do we know about (what we would today refer to as) LGBTQ+ individuals and communities in pre-colonial Africa communities.	1691	Jtwil2191
Hernan Cortes' conquest of Mexico relied heavily on alliances with native peoples, which he somewhat downplayed in his own accounts, did Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul similarly depend on allied Gallic tribes doing much of the fighting?	1691	Ramses_IV
How did the first generations of Germans born after WW2 react to coming of age and realizing that their parents generation may have participated in things that were nearly universally agreed to be horrible atrocities?	1691	Eat-A-Torus