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How would Herodotus fare as a contributor to r/askhistorians? Would he be censored for not quoting source?
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I'm a high school History teacher, and I would like to assign some historical fiction novels in my classes in order to get my students more engaged in history. Any suggestions?
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700,000 Portuguese people migrated to Brazil in the period before 1760. Given that Portugal only has 10 million people today, that figure astounded me. How does the relative and absolute scale of that migration compare with contemporary patterns of European settlement in the Americas.
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A large Napoleonic battle happens in a field by an important river. Men are buried, but what happens to the hundreds of dead horses? They're pretty hard to bury, but leaving them to rot hampers work in the fields and threatens to contaminate the water. Would armies bother to do something?
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I am Dr. John Latham-Sprinkle, here to talk about my work on the medieval Caucasus and West Eurasia. Ask me anything!
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Is historical pornography considered a reliably primary source for what people found attractive at different times? NSFW
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In the Book of Deuteronomy (20:17) God instructs the Israelites to commit genocide ("utterly destroy them") the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites in the Promised Land. What archaeological evidence do we have of their destruction ("save alive nothing that breatheth")?
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