/u/ManicMarine's posts

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When the English Civil War was starting in the early 1640s, the enormously costly Thirty Years War had been raging for over 20 years on the Continent. Were there Englishmen who were worried that the start of war in England would be similarly destructive, and if so why were they unable to stop it?	145	AskHistorians
To what extent did the Battle of the Morannon affect the demographics of Middle Earth in the Fourth Age?	125	AskHistorians
In his book 1491, Charles Mann says that one of the reasons for the popularity of potatoes in Europe was that they could be stored in the ground, rather than in granaries like other crops, and thus were much harder for nobles or armies to steal. Is there any evidence for this hypothesis?	116	AskHistorians
Why did the Catalan Revolt during the 1640s and 1650s fail, but the simultaneously occurring Portuguese revolt succeed in reestablishing an independent state?	105	AskHistorians
All the American and European revolutions up until 1848 were liberal revolutions, but after that they become almost uniformly socialist. Why?	104	AskHistorians
Was the existence of a State required before currency could be invented, or did the invention of currency predate the rise if the State?	98	AskHistorians
Why did Mexico encourage Anglo-American immigration to Texas in the 1820s? In retrospect, it looks like an obvious mistake.	96	AskHistorians
Throughout the Medieval and Early Modern periods, scholars who did not share a common language would often write letters to each other in Latin. When scholars visited each other, would they also speak in Latin, or was Latin a purely literary language by this stage?	87	AskHistorians
In the premodern period, the Eurasian Steppe was dominated by nomadic tribes whose military power was largely cavalry. How did the Kievan Rus, a settled state whose armies relied on a core of sturdy infantry, thrive on the steppe, given the widely understood supremacy of horse archers over infantry?	86	AskHistorians
Around the 1st century AD, there were many different popular schools of philosophy: Aristotelianism, Platonism, Cynicism, Stoicism, Skepticism, and more. But 300 years later, a combination of Platonism and Aristotelianism called Neo-Platonism was almost completely dominant. How did this happen?	78	AskHistorians

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