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Was Pre-Modern Banditry a Community Effort?

189 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is North Africa Significantly Less Fertile than Antiquity?

105 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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There is as much time between the Roman Empire and the Egyptian Old Kingdom as there is between us and the Roman Empire. Did the Romans look at Egypt with reverence and fascination in the same way we do with Rome?

45 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why is there so little that we know about the Classical World, especially outside of Greece and Rome?

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Was the Ottoman Empire the successor to the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire?

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I have often heard that the origin of saying "bless you" when someone sneezes is that it is an originally medieval encouragement to excise demons from your body. How true is this? What did medieval medical authorities believe sneezes were?

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[WP] You are playing a strategy game against the computer when the AI begins to exhibit very strange behavior.

10 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] In the near-future, an AI goes rogue. However, instead of destroying the world or ending humanity, it resolves to win every single argument on the internet.

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[TT] "They called him the slowest draw in the West."

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How did the Carlist movement sustain itself for so long after they lost the Carlist Wars in Spain?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Was Pre-Modern Banditry a Community Effort?	189	AskHistorians
Is North Africa Significantly Less Fertile than Antiquity?	105	AskHistorians
There is as much time between the Roman Empire and the Egyptian Old Kingdom as there is between us and the Roman Empire. Did the Romans look at Egypt with reverence and fascination in the same way we do with Rome?	45	AskHistorians
Why is there so little that we know about the Classical World, especially outside of Greece and Rome?	17	AskHistorians
Was the Ottoman Empire the successor to the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire?	13	AskHistorians
I have often heard that the origin of saying "bless you" when someone sneezes is that it is an originally medieval encouragement to excise demons from your body. How true is this? What did medieval medical authorities believe sneezes were?	11	AskHistorians
[WP] You are playing a strategy game against the computer when the AI begins to exhibit very strange behavior.	10	WritingPrompts
[WP] In the near-future, an AI goes rogue. However, instead of destroying the world or ending humanity, it resolves to win every single argument on the internet.	9	WritingPrompts
[TT] "They called him the slowest draw in the West."	9	WritingPrompts
How did the Carlist movement sustain itself for so long after they lost the Carlist Wars in Spain?	7	AskHistorians