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Hi history lovers! My name is Keagan Brewer. Tomorrow, I will be doing an AMA on the legends, wonders, and supernatural beliefs of the European Middle Ages.

1453 upvotes • KeaganBrewerOfficial

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Why did polygamy never catch on in European monarchies?

1453 upvotes • EquivalentInflation

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How were the Romans able to field much larger armies than Medieval Europe?

1452 upvotes • SlowpokesBro

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In the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil", there is a lyric that goes "I shouted out/Who killed the Kennedys?/When after all/It was you and me". Was there any stigma around such references in music and TV, considering the song was released five years after Kennedy's death?

1452 upvotes • Pure-Vinyl

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Have we physically changed or have our depictions?

1452 upvotes • NecessaryImpact9

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Copernicus and heliocentrism met with a lot of opposition in the Christian west. How did other civilizations respond to the idea that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe?

1451 upvotes • brorobt

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Was impaired vision seen as a major disability before the creation of corrective lenses?

1451 upvotes • CaptainFloorBoard

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What are some conceptual blindspots of the Civilization series of video games?

1451 upvotes • johann_tor

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What practices and tools do historians use to evaluate sources they suspect might be facetious or trolling?

1450 upvotes • Taoiseach

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How has the Japanese Imperial Family remained so absurdly small after nearly 1500 years of continuous rule?

1450 upvotes • CrypticRandom

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Hi history lovers! My name is Keagan Brewer. Tomorrow, I will be doing an AMA on the legends, wonders, and supernatural beliefs of the European Middle Ages.	1453	KeaganBrewerOfficial
Why did polygamy never catch on in European monarchies?	1453	EquivalentInflation
How were the Romans able to field much larger armies than Medieval Europe?	1452	SlowpokesBro
In the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil", there is a lyric that goes "I shouted out/Who killed the Kennedys?/When after all/It was you and me". Was there any stigma around such references in music and TV, considering the song was released five years after Kennedy's death?	1452	Pure-Vinyl
Have we physically changed or have our depictions?	1452	NecessaryImpact9
Copernicus and heliocentrism met with a lot of opposition in the Christian west. How did other civilizations respond to the idea that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe?	1451	brorobt
Was impaired vision seen as a major disability before the creation of corrective lenses?	1451	CaptainFloorBoard
What are some conceptual blindspots of the Civilization series of video games?	1451	johann_tor
What practices and tools do historians use to evaluate sources they suspect might be facetious or trolling?	1450	Taoiseach
How has the Japanese Imperial Family remained so absurdly small after nearly 1500 years of continuous rule?	1450	CrypticRandom