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Not very long ago, wars of conquest were just an accepted fact of life and seemingly the right of any nation that could make a go at it. Now, any nation doing so is decried by even average citizens of almost every state. What caused this profound change?

791 upvotes • SaintShrink

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IAMA Classics Professor who has travelled around Europe to translate ancient Latin textbooks to English. AMA about what this means for our understanding of Roman history

790 upvotes • Hermeneumata

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How did Holocaust denial become a thing?

790 upvotes • sammyjamez

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In video games and movies, swordsmen are often depicted wearing their swords/weapon of choice on their back instead of in a sheathe at their side. Was there ever a point in time where this was common practice?

789 upvotes • [deleted]

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Why was "Yeshua" transliterated into "Jesus" for the son of God, but "Joshua" for the other biblical figure?

789 upvotes • drock45

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Mikhail Gorbachev wrote in 2006 "The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl... was perhaps the true cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union" - what role did the disaster have in the Soviet collapse?

789 upvotes • Felczer

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It's often argued at the horrors of the First World War drove Europe away from religion and toward more pessimistic philosophy. But is there any evidence that the war had a permanent, sobering impact on European thought?

788 upvotes • Vladith

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How did the different knightly orders cope with the modernising world? (with the Teutonic knights and the Hospitallers surviving long after their crusading times were over)

788 upvotes • JediMindFlicks

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In The West Wing, President Bartlet says "two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation, cloaked only in the protection of the words civis Romanus -- I am a Roman citizen." Is this true?

787 upvotes • merteil1

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In Medieval Europe, how much did living in a walled city affect property values?

787 upvotes • Visceralrealism

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Not very long ago, wars of conquest were just an accepted fact of life and seemingly the right of any nation that could make a go at it. Now, any nation doing so is decried by even average citizens of almost every state. What caused this profound change?	791	SaintShrink
IAMA Classics Professor who has travelled around Europe to translate ancient Latin textbooks to English. AMA about what this means for our understanding of Roman history	790	Hermeneumata
How did Holocaust denial become a thing?	790	sammyjamez
In video games and movies, swordsmen are often depicted wearing their swords/weapon of choice on their back instead of in a sheathe at their side. Was there ever a point in time where this was common practice?	789	[deleted]
Why was "Yeshua" transliterated into "Jesus" for the son of God, but "Joshua" for the other biblical figure?	789	drock45
Mikhail Gorbachev wrote in 2006 "The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl... was perhaps the true cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union" - what role did the disaster have in the Soviet collapse?	789	Felczer
It's often argued at the horrors of the First World War drove Europe away from religion and toward more pessimistic philosophy. But is there any evidence that the war had a permanent, sobering impact on European thought?	788	Vladith
How did the different knightly orders cope with the modernising world? (with the Teutonic knights and the Hospitallers surviving long after their crusading times were over)	788	JediMindFlicks
In The West Wing, President Bartlet says "two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation, cloaked only in the protection of the words civis Romanus -- I am a Roman citizen." Is this true?	787	merteil1
In Medieval Europe, how much did living in a walled city affect property values?	787	Visceralrealism