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Why did many feats of Roman engineering like aqueducts fall into disrepair and disuse after the fall of the Roman Empire?

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How were the Aztec and Incan civilizations able to sustain such huge populations given their Neolithic level of technology? Were technologically equivalent civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia and the Near East as large?

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[WP] We all live in a yellow submarine but it has been attacked by a giant octopus who is angry that we trespassed in its garden under the sea.

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What did naval combat look like for the sailors on destroyers in WWII? Could they see the enemy ships they were targeting? When the ship was sunk, what happened to them?

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Did Andy Warhol have a low IQ? What was his personality really like?

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On the first day of the Battle of Fredericksburg, how was the Union able to cross the Rappahannock in open pontoon boats and defeat all the Confederate sharpshooters in the town so easily?

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I've read that desertion rates were very low for French armies in the Napoleonic Wars (in contrast to Britain) because of the establishment of the gendarmerie or military police that aggressively cracked down on collusion between deserters and local communities. How did this function?

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Was it common in early Tokugawa period Japan (circa 1630) for masterless samurai to request to commit seppuku in the palace courtyard of local lords in hopes of receiving alms, as portrayed in the 1962 movie Harakiri?

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Why did both Wat Tyler and Guillaume Cale make the same mistake of crossing into enemy lines to meet with nobles who then betrayed them during the 14th century English and French peasant revolts?

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Catholic veneration of patron saints seems very similar to Greco-Roman pagan veneration of thousands of minor patron deities and it seems to have arisen in Christianity around the 3rd century when Rome first adopted it, yet I’ve seen it claimed there is no connection. Can that really be true?

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Why did many feats of Roman engineering like aqueducts fall into disrepair and disuse after the fall of the Roman Empire?	5	AskHistorians
How were the Aztec and Incan civilizations able to sustain such huge populations given their Neolithic level of technology? Were technologically equivalent civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia and the Near East as large?	5	AskHistorians
[WP] We all live in a yellow submarine but it has been attacked by a giant octopus who is angry that we trespassed in its garden under the sea.	5	WritingPrompts
What did naval combat look like for the sailors on destroyers in WWII? Could they see the enemy ships they were targeting? When the ship was sunk, what happened to them?	5	AskHistorians
Did Andy Warhol have a low IQ? What was his personality really like?	5	AskHistorians
On the first day of the Battle of Fredericksburg, how was the Union able to cross the Rappahannock in open pontoon boats and defeat all the Confederate sharpshooters in the town so easily?	5	AskHistorians
I've read that desertion rates were very low for French armies in the Napoleonic Wars (in contrast to Britain) because of the establishment of the gendarmerie or military police that aggressively cracked down on collusion between deserters and local communities. How did this function?	4	AskHistorians
Was it common in early Tokugawa period Japan (circa 1630) for masterless samurai to request to commit seppuku in the palace courtyard of local lords in hopes of receiving alms, as portrayed in the 1962 movie Harakiri?	4	AskHistorians
Why did both Wat Tyler and Guillaume Cale make the same mistake of crossing into enemy lines to meet with nobles who then betrayed them during the 14th century English and French peasant revolts?	4	AskHistorians
Catholic veneration of patron saints seems very similar to Greco-Roman pagan veneration of thousands of minor patron deities and it seems to have arisen in Christianity around the 3rd century when Rome first adopted it, yet I’ve seen it claimed there is no connection. Can that really be true?	4	AskHistorians