/u/Garrus37's posts in /r/askhistorians
When did the Franks become the French? When did the Germanic tribe that conquered Gaul, become the romance nation of France ?
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Why are Goths(the modern culture) named after Goths (the people that conquered the Western Roman Empire)?
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What was the role of the Catholic Church in German occupied France, during ww2 ? Where they more sympathetic toward the Free French or the Vichy French ? Was it split or neutral ?
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When the Turks conquered the Byzantines, why didn't the Sultan banish or execute the Patriarch of Constantinople ?
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Belarus, Russia and Ukraine all claim the Kievan Rus as their cultural ancestors. How did the Kievan Rus get split into three different nations ?
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The Musical, Hamilton portrays Alexander Hamilton as a man defined by his immigrant background (such as in the song Immigrants get the job done). How much is this based in reality ? Was Hamilton seen as a foreigner or a fellow Anglo Saxon ?
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Daniel Bruhl’s character in Joueyex Noel is a ww1 era German officer, who’s a Jew with a French wife. Would such a man be even allowed to be an officer in the German army during ww1 ?
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