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Medieval Muslim scholars preserved many classical Greek source works, but apparently not many classical Persian ones. Did they have a Greek bias, or was there a lack of Persian sources to begin with?

1629 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Does the fossil record show significant changes in the global diversity of land animals coinciding with the formation or breakup of supercontinents?

677 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why did most of the Turkic tribes migrating southward out of Central Asia end up in Anatolia?

620 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] Your family doesn’t reproduce normally. Withdrawing from society for a week causes you to undergo binary fission, splitting into male and female offspring—each of whom is half your biological age, and inherits a random half of your memories. Some of these memories are now millennia old.

375 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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In medieval chivalric romances, Christian and Muslim knights often encounter each other while wandering about on horseback. Is this a recollection of the pre-Carolingian era, when the Umayyad Caliphate extended into southern Gaul?

142 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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When reading Soviet historians, I’ve seen the works of Engels cited more often than Marx. Was there a political reason for this, or did Engels contribute independent historical theories that have been overshadowed in the west by his association with Marx?

131 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Were the ancient Chinese (i.e., Han era) aware that the Caspian Sea was landlocked, or did they think its eastern shore was the end of the continent?

115 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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In his “Indica”, describing India in the time of Alexander, Arrian makes continual references to the conquest of India by Dionysus—as if it were a real event the Indians themselves used as an historical epoch. Is this “Dionysus” a Greek interpretation of a local Indian mythical figure?

104 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is the eyesight of small animals like mice and snakes as poor as ours would be if our retinas were the size of theirs?

98 upvotes • r/askscience

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What were relations like between Sassanid Persia and Gupta India?

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Medieval Muslim scholars preserved many classical Greek source works, but apparently not many classical Persian ones. Did they have a Greek bias, or was there a lack of Persian sources to begin with?	1629	AskHistorians
Does the fossil record show significant changes in the global diversity of land animals coinciding with the formation or breakup of supercontinents?	677	askscience
Why did most of the Turkic tribes migrating southward out of Central Asia end up in Anatolia?	620	AskHistorians
[WP] Your family doesn’t reproduce normally. Withdrawing from society for a week causes you to undergo binary fission, splitting into male and female offspring—each of whom is half your biological age, and inherits a random half of your memories. Some of these memories are now millennia old.	375	WritingPrompts
In medieval chivalric romances, Christian and Muslim knights often encounter each other while wandering about on horseback. Is this a recollection of the pre-Carolingian era, when the Umayyad Caliphate extended into southern Gaul?	142	AskHistorians
When reading Soviet historians, I’ve seen the works of Engels cited more often than Marx. Was there a political reason for this, or did Engels contribute independent historical theories that have been overshadowed in the west by his association with Marx?	131	AskHistorians
Were the ancient Chinese (i.e., Han era) aware that the Caspian Sea was landlocked, or did they think its eastern shore was the end of the continent?	115	AskHistorians
In his “Indica”, describing India in the time of Alexander, Arrian makes continual references to the conquest of India by Dionysus—as if it were a real event the Indians themselves used as an historical epoch. Is this “Dionysus” a Greek interpretation of a local Indian mythical figure?	104	AskHistorians
Is the eyesight of small animals like mice and snakes as poor as ours would be if our retinas were the size of theirs?	98	askscience
What were relations like between Sassanid Persia and Gupta India?	80	AskHistorians