/u/AustinioForza's posts in /r/askhistorians
In the opening sequence to the HBO show Rome we see people placing and removing scrolls from numbered square slots in a wall. What is this wall? What was it’s significance?
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Did any Punic cities get peaceably absorbed into Rome after the Punic Wars? If so, did a Romanized-Punic culture develop in said cities?
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I’ve heard a few times before that one of the reasons that Christianity grew so much at the expense of Greco-Roman paganism is that it offered a more satisfying afterlife. Was there an attempt to make the pagan afterlife more attractive in light of this?
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I've always heard it said that they just "arbitrarily drew lines on the map" in the Sykes-Picot Agreement irrespective of all considerations...could that not have been a part of the design?
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What non-Horde/non-Steppe cultures had the best and most consistent military success against the Mongols in their prime and why? I know of the Japanese but are there others?
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How credible are the claims of descent through Antiquity of Charlemagne being a descendant of Saint Arnulf of Metz, who in turn is supposed to be descended from the Roman aristocrat Flavius Afranius Syagrius?
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I’m a Medieval European King and a town of middling size has been pestering me about receiving a charter and rights to be a commune. What’s in it for me though?
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