/r/askhistorians
How significant was Franz Ferdinand in life? Was he known across America? Across Europe? What did he do, exactly?
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How guilty was Marie Antoinette, how did foreign monarchies respond to her death, and how does France today view her end in the Reign of Terror?
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How did medieval knights dress when not in battle? Did they just wear normal (presumably expensive) medieval clothes, or did they have some sort of uniform or other "badge of office" garment worn to advertize their status as knights?
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There's this popular tendency, especially among right wing ideologues, to suggest that "moral degeneracy" or "decadence" leads to the collapse of empires. Is there any legitimacy to this claim and if not, why is this viewpoint so popular?
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Orwell says:"The Great War, for instance, could never have happened if tinned food had not been invented". Is this correct? How would lack of canned food change WW1?
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How were ships of the line in the 18th to 19th centuries still able to be combat effective (if at all) after receiving a single full broadside?
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The subreddit antiwork recently posted a meme claiming that Medieval peasants had at least 150 days off of work a year. How true is this and did they get any days off?
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