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Today, we tend to poke fun at the name "Holy Roman Empire". But would the average German living, let's say in the mid-11th Century before the investiture controversy, have seen their society as the legitimate heir to Rome?

1770 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why is Afrikaans considered a language, rather than a dialect of Dutch, when Australian English (which developed under similar circumstances/distances) is just a dialect?

1525 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How did the Franks go from axe-hurling, Germanic-speaking pagan tribesmen to the God-fearing, Gallo-Romance speaking knights in shining armor of Charlemagne's time?

726 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How long would it take to safely accelerate to the speed of light without experiencing G-forces that would be destructive to the human body?

687 upvotes • r/askscience

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Did people do anything special to celebrate the year 1000 A.D.?

480 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why have virtually all states in the Italian region stressed an "Italian" over a "Roman" identity for the last 1500 years?

405 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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The website Geacron, which offers year-by-year maps of the world from 3000 BC to present, shows a massive change in the shape of the Persian Gulf between 609 and 608 BC. Is this at all accurate? And if so, what the heck happened?

386 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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At what point did speakers of the various Latin dialects stop calling the language they spoke "Latin"?

307 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Were early European visitors to the New World puzzled to find familiar species, like bears and wolves, living there?

290 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why do the British Isles have less of a seafood-based culinary tradition than other coastal/island areas like Scandinavia, Japan, Korea, the Northeast American seaboard, and Southeast Asia?

239 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Today, we tend to poke fun at the name "Holy Roman Empire". But would the average German living, let's say in the mid-11th Century before the investiture controversy, have seen their society as the legitimate heir to Rome?	1770	AskHistorians
Why is Afrikaans considered a language, rather than a dialect of Dutch, when Australian English (which developed under similar circumstances/distances) is just a dialect?	1525	AskHistorians
How did the Franks go from axe-hurling, Germanic-speaking pagan tribesmen to the God-fearing, Gallo-Romance speaking knights in shining armor of Charlemagne's time?	726	AskHistorians
How long would it take to safely accelerate to the speed of light without experiencing G-forces that would be destructive to the human body?	687	askscience
Did people do anything special to celebrate the year 1000 A.D.?	480	AskHistorians
Why have virtually all states in the Italian region stressed an "Italian" over a "Roman" identity for the last 1500 years?	405	AskHistorians
The website Geacron, which offers year-by-year maps of the world from 3000 BC to present, shows a massive change in the shape of the Persian Gulf between 609 and 608 BC. Is this at all accurate? And if so, what the heck happened?	386	AskHistorians
At what point did speakers of the various Latin dialects stop calling the language they spoke "Latin"?	307	AskHistorians
Were early European visitors to the New World puzzled to find familiar species, like bears and wolves, living there?	290	AskHistorians
Why do the British Isles have less of a seafood-based culinary tradition than other coastal/island areas like Scandinavia, Japan, Korea, the Northeast American seaboard, and Southeast Asia?	239	AskHistorians