/u/DaDerpyDude's posts in /r/AskHistorians
How did East Asia come to have so many well-known martial arts while the West has boxing and... capoeira?
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Ancient Greek and Chinese philosophies are world-famous, but there was another civilization in between. What do we know about ancient Persian philosophy?
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Today, the Heart is associated with love. In the past, were other organs associated with other emotions?
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Why did Classical Arabic stay somewhat intelligible for modern Arabic speakers while the Romance languages diverged from Latin? Why did Latin not influence the Romance languages to stay conservative like Classical Arabic influenced the Arabic varieties?
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Why are there so few texts from ancient Persia? Did they not have developed philosophy, history and science like Greece/Rome and China or was it lost after the Islamic conquest?
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What effect did the introduction of the printing press have on Torah study in particular and Jewish society in general?
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