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Why did the Chinese switch from using forks in the Shang dynasty to using chopsticks in the Han?

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What did English speakers call alcohol before "alcohol"? Did they have an idea that there was one substance inside all alcoholic drinks that caused drunkenness?

113 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What did people call alcohol before alcohol? Did they have an idea that there was one substance inside all alcoholic drinks that caused drunkenness?

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Why didn't the German citizenry continue the war as partisans after the Allied invasion of Germany in World War 2? Why did the military not continue to fight? Why did the Germans not vote for a thinly veiled national socialist party in 1949?

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Why did child soldiering stop being a thing in most of the world except maybe parts of Africa?

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Why are several Chinese emperors depicted as having light coloured irises?

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Why is Benin not considered an independent civilisational cradle?

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Why did Spain manage to keep Puerto Rico and Cuba after losing the rest of its Latin American colonies?

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What were the changes in Mesoamerica that allowed or caused human society there to go from not having cities to having cities?

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Why, after world war 2, did the USSR give to China not only Manchuria, but Port Arthur and the railway from Siberia to Port Arthur?

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Why did the Chinese switch from using forks in the Shang dynasty to using chopsticks in the Han?	2991	AskHistorians
What did English speakers call alcohol before "alcohol"? Did they have an idea that there was one substance inside all alcoholic drinks that caused drunkenness?	113	AskHistorians
What did people call alcohol before alcohol? Did they have an idea that there was one substance inside all alcoholic drinks that caused drunkenness?	22	AskHistorians
Why didn't the German citizenry continue the war as partisans after the Allied invasion of Germany in World War 2? Why did the military not continue to fight? Why did the Germans not vote for a thinly veiled national socialist party in 1949?	22	AskHistorians
Why did child soldiering stop being a thing in most of the world except maybe parts of Africa?	16	AskHistorians
Why are several Chinese emperors depicted as having light coloured irises?	15	AskHistorians
Why is Benin not considered an independent civilisational cradle?	14	AskHistorians
Why did Spain manage to keep Puerto Rico and Cuba after losing the rest of its Latin American colonies?	12	AskHistorians
What were the changes in Mesoamerica that allowed or caused human society there to go from not having cities to having cities?	12	AskHistorians
Why, after world war 2, did the USSR give to China not only Manchuria, but Port Arthur and the railway from Siberia to Port Arthur?	11	AskHistorians