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How did the Arian Church that many Germanic people's believed in function? Were there any similarities to the Catholic Church? Was there a centralized hierarchy?
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I know about the Battle of Carrhae where Rome got crushed but what was the Persian version where they got their asses absolutely whooped by Rome?
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How interrelated is the ecclesiastical hierarchy of Roman Catholicism to that of the Ancient Roman religion? I know that they had Augurs in a special priestly roles but did they have equivalents to Bishops, Cardinals, the Pope?
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What effect did the Black Death have on Patrician status in Venice? The “Great Council Lockout” whereby membership in the Great Council started to become hereditary began in 1297, 50 years prior to the pandemic, did the death toll reopen admittance to increase numbers?
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I read some interesting things about Québec’s french population and their ancestry relative to that of Acadia: that the ancestors of both were largely from separate areas of France and that Québec has a huge “founder effect.”
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I’ve been reading up on the Russian Revolution recently and found out that about 2/3’s of the Romanov family managed to flee. How did these surviving members manage to flee? What has become of the Romanovs?
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I just found out that Zenobia may be a descendant of Mark Antony and Cleopatra through Drusilla of Mauretania and her husband Sohaemus. This means that she was part Julii through Mark Antony. Was this ever remarked upon during her time? Any other fascinating connections like this in Antiquity?
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Listening to the History of England podcast, and a point has been made that London petitioned King Stephen to become a commune. Being a market town, would this have looked at all like the Merchant Republics of Italy?
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