askhistorians

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Are there any topics on which there is virtually no consensus at all among historians? If so, what are they?	254
What events or time periods were not as bad to live through for the typical person as they are commonly depicted?	109
How violent/peaceful was the transition of the Holy Land from predominantly Christian in the early centuries after the fall of Rome to predominantly Muslim by the middle ages? In what ways did Eastern Christian civilization influence the Islamic states that succeeded it?	84
Are there any places in the world where the geography/topography today is radically different from ancient times?	26
How accurate are statements like "x was the first marxist thinker" or "y was the first rationalist"? Are thoughts really exclusive to certain places, people, and times in the modern age? What is really meant by statements such as these?	10
While reading about the history of the Jews in Medieval Europe, it seems that very often, kings, nobles, and high-ranking clergymen would defend jewish communities legally and denounce anti-jewish acts. Why, then, were common Europeans still so universally brutal to their Jewish neighbors?	6
What are some comprehensive and neutral histories of the Crusades?	6
How did the Holy Land transition from predominantly Christian to predominantly Muslim? To what (if any) extent was it violent? Peaceful? To what extent was Muslim culture influenced by Eastern Christians?	5
How effective were Church-mandated Peaces and Truces in Medieval Europe?	5
Does that notion that the liberalization of the Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century was in part the result of conscious effort by Freemasons hold any water from a serious analytical perspective?	1

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