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How comes the classic Ottomans were able to field such large armies despite not having having a much larger population (sometimes even smaller,) than it's enemies?

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Were there famous gunslingers/cowboy equivalents in Russian history/folklore?

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Great Catalan Company...overrated?

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Did medieval and Renaissance artists really think Biblical and Classical characters dressed like them, or was it just an artictic convention?

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How well regarded are Oswald Spengler, Ibn Khaldun and Amaury de Riencourt's models of civilizational ''growth and decline'' in modern historiography?

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What are the best books and online resources/platforms I can use to become a self taught Byzantinist?

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Why couldn't the Byzantine field armies as large as those of the Roman Republic despite using a similar military organization (Themes)?

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Is there really a debate on the amount of people killed by communists regimes in the 20th century?

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Did any pardoned survivor of a failed capital execution publish any literature of what their last experiences and thoughts before "death" were like?

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Why did't the Byzantines employ slave soldiers as their neighhbours?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How comes the classic Ottomans were able to field such large armies despite not having having a much larger population (sometimes even smaller,) than it's enemies?	70
Were there famous gunslingers/cowboy equivalents in Russian history/folklore?	27
Great Catalan Company...overrated?	22
Did medieval and Renaissance artists really think Biblical and Classical characters dressed like them, or was it just an artictic convention?	16
How well regarded are Oswald Spengler, Ibn Khaldun and Amaury de Riencourt's models of civilizational ''growth and decline'' in modern historiography?	7
What are the best books and online resources/platforms I can use to become a self taught Byzantinist?	6
Why couldn't the Byzantine field armies as large as those of the Roman Republic despite using a similar military organization (Themes)?	5
Is there really a debate on the amount of people killed by communists regimes in the 20th century?	3
Did any pardoned survivor of a failed capital execution publish any literature of what their last experiences and thoughts before "death" were like?	3
Why did't the Byzantines employ slave soldiers as their neighhbours?	2