/u/Isatis_tinctoria's posts in /r/askhistorians
If France did not capitulate to Germany in WWII, would it have been able to hold off Germany? If so, how long? Perhaps they could have held off for a few years to get US involvement, right?
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How can maps be used in other ways other than representing the geographic environment? How can nationalist groups manipulate them for their own use?
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What specific reactions did European rulers throughout Europe have to the Fall of Constantinople? Was it assumed that Constantinople was going to fall?
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Who was likely correct regarding what actually happened historically in the "state of nature" - Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau? Was humanity, vicious like Hobbes stated? Or like Locke said where humans lived in harmony? Or like Rousseau said humanity was noble? Was Rousseau right in thinking?
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Why did Mazo Zedong keep China closed? Why did Kissinger and Nixon have to open China? (not asking what the US motivation was). Just curious to the Chinese motivations.
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Why were taxes developed historically? Presumably in Mesopotamia, but what is the historical incentive of such enterprises?
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