/u/Legitimate_Twist's posts

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Vienna before WWI, as the capital of Austria-Hungary, was the center of a large, multi-ethnic empire that ranked among the Great Powers. After the war, it was a capital of a small, land-locked nation with a largely homogeneous population. How did the city change with its drastic shift in fortunes?	71	AskHistorians
Native Americans on the Pacific Northwest Coast created iron tools likely sourced from Asian shipwrecks before European contact. Do we know what these people thought about these shipwrecks?	63	AskHistorians
The Tokyo Stock Exchange was in operation all the way through WWII until the bombing of Nagasaki. What were the conditions of the Japanese stock market like during the war, especially as Japan began to lose and Tokyo and other major cities were firebombed?	53	AskHistorians
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, many other cities besides Nanjing were captured by the Japanese. But while atrocities occurred across China, the Nanking Massacre seems to have been larger in scale and more prominent in memory. Why isn't there a "Shanghai Massacre" or a "Beijing Massacre"?	43	AskHistorians
Both Christianity and Islam converted large swathes of people across multiple continents. Is it a coincidence that the two largest religions today are both Abrahamic Religions? Or is there a commonality between the two that explains their successes in proselytization?	42	AskHistorians
The Romans are known for building aqueducts to its cities, but it seems Medieval countries didn't build similar infrastructure even when their cities eventually surpassed the size of cities during Roman times. Did Medieval cities actually build aqueducts or did they source water in another way?	36	AskHistorians
A WWII-era U.S. enlistment manual say an applicant can be rejected based on "extreme ugliness." What's the justification for this?	32	AskHistorians
Why did Anglo-Saxons establish a settlement (Lundenwic) just a mile outside of London's Roman city walls instead of using the already existing defenses?	29	AskHistorians
Ancient Rome is famous for its massive public projects, particularly focused on leisure and entertainment, such as public stadiums, baths, theaters, etc. Did the contemporaneous Han Dynasty in China have anything similar?	29	AskHistorians
During the the Roman Empire, did fighters in the various civil wars express remorse that they were killing their own countrymen, often to the detriment of the security of the Empire? Or are these sentiments not at all accurate for the period but rather colored by modern ideas of nations?	18	AskHistorians

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