askhistorians

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Where there any significant criticisms of monarchy during the middle ages? What were people’s opinions on non-monarchical institutions during that time period?	11
What were Medieval views on farming like?	8
When did the western academic interest in ancient mesopotamian history and culture (Epic of Gilgamesh and Code of Hammurabi etc) start and where did it come from? An interest in human origins or did they claim a lineage from it?	6
How does Nationalism affect the way people view and study history? What other aspects of the modern world and recent past affect the viewing of history? How has modernity been viewed throughout history?	6
Do we have any accounts of what Ancient Roman/Greek women thought about their roles in society, and what their views on the way they were treated in those highly patriarchal societies were? If so, did they view the gender roles in those societies as legitimate or did they criticize them?	6
How did people outside of Italy react to Caesar’s death?	6
How did the City Government of Constantinople function on a day to day basis during the 1000s, let’s say during the reign of Basil II? How did its administration contrast from that of earlier and later periods? How were other major cities within the Byzantine Empire administered?	6
I’ve often heard of Anatolia being the heartland of the Byzantine Empire, the source of much of its power and wealth, why is this? Relatedly, why was mainland Greece seemingly depopulated and economically/culturally meager during the Byzantine Period, aside from Thessalonica?	5
What were contemporary american opinions on the french revolution and subsequent napoleon wars happening on the other side of the atlantic like? What were american opinions on the principles of liberté, egalité, fraternité?	5
I’m playing the Witcher 3 and I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of hanged soldiers about charged with crimes of Sabotage and Desertion. Did capital punishment like this ever occur in medieval armies? Did medieval armies ever have such a thing as military law?	3

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