/u/Dinocrocodile's posts in /r/askhistorians
Towards the end of the Byzantine Empire did they dress more like Romans, Medieval Europeans, or neither?
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What happened to all the East/West travel and trade throughout the Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
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The ancient Greeks and Romans believed the legendary Amazons actually existed (if only in the Heroic past and the edges of the world). What did Medieval writers think of the Amazons?
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Roman concubinage is often described as a non-legal marriage. Can the relationship between a (male) concubinus and a Roman man be considered a kind of gay marriage?
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How did Italian-Americans react to Italy's involvement in WWII? What was the general perception of Fascist Italy among Italian-Americans & people who previously went back and forth between US/Italy?
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Suppose I am a 18 y/o Greek woman from an aristocratic family in the 4th Century BC, what is my daily life like? How different will it be at 58? How about in 4th Century AD?
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What is known about the history of the African Pigmy peoples prior to the arrival of European colonizers?
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Nowadays genres like sci-fi and fantasy are seen as the fare of smart people or "nerds" but it was seen as a lowbrow or silly diversion for a long time. When did perceptions of speculative fiction change?
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When and how did musical genres become so strongly associated with their own subcultures and countercultural movements?
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