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Happy 9th Birthday AskHistorians! Thank you to our wonderful community for nine excellent years of doing history, and for many more to come! Now as is tradition, you may get a little rambunctious in this thread.

1611 upvotes • Georgy_K_Zhukov

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Why didn't the Roman ''legionnaire'' armor stay relevant after the fall of the Empire? If it was used by the greatest empire in history until that moment, why didn't the kingdoms of the middle ages utilize their style of armor? Even the eastern Romans stopped using it and opted for alternatives.

1611 upvotes • Doomaster14

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Why do women have long hair?

1610 upvotes • applesinthefall

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How would an average Roman buy a ticket to the Coliseum?

1609 upvotes • ClassicMac739

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When, why, and how did New World tomatoes and peppers become so ubiquitous in Italian cuisine?

1608 upvotes • takatori

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In Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread", he repeatedly cites the English Lifeboat Association (circa the 1890s) as exemplifying the principles of free agreement and anarchic organization. How exactly was the association organized/run at this time?

1608 upvotes • Max1461

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Alexandre Dumas' father Thomas-Alexandre was descended from a French noble and a slave of African descent. He also became the highest-ranking man of mixed African descent ever in a European army, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Do we know of attitudes and/or discrimation towards him in France?

1607 upvotes • drylaw

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Why is the centre of the Arabian Peninsula often shown as unclaimed on pre-WW1 maps?

1607 upvotes • Treehut3000

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How did people who were voluntarily immured go to the toilet?

1607 upvotes • tinyfreckle

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Alexander the Great famously founded several cities bearing his name during his conquests. What does founding a city actually look like in this context? What structures were built? How was the city populated?

1607 upvotes • StuTheSheep

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Happy 9th Birthday AskHistorians! Thank you to our wonderful community for nine excellent years of doing history, and for many more to come! Now as is tradition, you may get a little rambunctious in this thread.	1611	Georgy_K_Zhukov
Why didn't the Roman ''legionnaire'' armor stay relevant after the fall of the Empire? If it was used by the greatest empire in history until that moment, why didn't the kingdoms of the middle ages utilize their style of armor? Even the eastern Romans stopped using it and opted for alternatives.	1611	Doomaster14
Why do women have long hair?	1610	applesinthefall
How would an average Roman buy a ticket to the Coliseum?	1609	ClassicMac739
When, why, and how did New World tomatoes and peppers become so ubiquitous in Italian cuisine?	1608	takatori
In Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread", he repeatedly cites the English Lifeboat Association (circa the 1890s) as exemplifying the principles of free agreement and anarchic organization. How exactly was the association organized/run at this time?	1608	Max1461
Alexandre Dumas' father Thomas-Alexandre was descended from a French noble and a slave of African descent. He also became the highest-ranking man of mixed African descent ever in a European army, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Do we know of attitudes and/or discrimation towards him in France?	1607	drylaw
Why is the centre of the Arabian Peninsula often shown as unclaimed on pre-WW1 maps?	1607	Treehut3000
How did people who were voluntarily immured go to the toilet?	1607	tinyfreckle
Alexander the Great famously founded several cities bearing his name during his conquests. What does founding a city actually look like in this context? What structures were built? How was the city populated?	1607	StuTheSheep