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What was Pericles' endgame?

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In the high middle ages, some towns had sumptuary laws aimed at restraining all the wealthier people on the same basis. Was this to stop one family rising to power? To save money on keeping up with the Joneses? Or to avoid annoying the poor?

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Were people in the Roman Empire more mobile (in terms of moving far away from where they were born) than they are in the modern developed world?

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In 5th century Europe, 'barbarians' took over Roman land and rapidly moved towards a landed aristocracy with limited, unreliable taxation. In 7th century Middle East Arab Muslims took over Roman land and maintained a taxation-based state. Why the different approaches?

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Recommended reading for late Greece / rise of Macedon (picking up after Xenephon's Hellenika)

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I find Eckstein's structural realist explanation of the rise of Rome as due to manpower rather than exceptional aggression very compelling: looking for critiques and book recommendations for alternative models

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Any evidence Kalinga in Eastern India was the world's first Parliamentary Democracy?

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Time of year for Anglo-Saxon warfare/Viking Raids

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Peter brown argues that in the sixth century each region of Italy 'voted with its feet' to be part of Justinian's empire or under Lombard control. Did they really have the ability to choose?

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Was arbitration between city-states used much in practice in Classical Greece? Could they ensure fair judges, and were the outcomes really in doubt?

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What was Pericles' endgame?	18
In the high middle ages, some towns had sumptuary laws aimed at restraining all the wealthier people on the same basis. Was this to stop one family rising to power? To save money on keeping up with the Joneses? Or to avoid annoying the poor?	15
Were people in the Roman Empire more mobile (in terms of moving far away from where they were born) than they are in the modern developed world?	13
In 5th century Europe, 'barbarians' took over Roman land and rapidly moved towards a landed aristocracy with limited, unreliable taxation. In 7th century Middle East Arab Muslims took over Roman land and maintained a taxation-based state. Why the different approaches?	10
Recommended reading for late Greece / rise of Macedon (picking up after Xenephon's Hellenika)	9
I find Eckstein's structural realist explanation of the rise of Rome as due to manpower rather than exceptional aggression very compelling: looking for critiques and book recommendations for alternative models	9
Any evidence Kalinga in Eastern India was the world's first Parliamentary Democracy?	8
Time of year for Anglo-Saxon warfare/Viking Raids	7
Peter brown argues that in the sixth century each region of Italy 'voted with its feet' to be part of Justinian's empire or under Lombard control. Did they really have the ability to choose?	7
Was arbitration between city-states used much in practice in Classical Greece? Could they ensure fair judges, and were the outcomes really in doubt?	7