/u/MaxAugust's posts
What is the current consensus on Roger Ekirch’s whole First Sleep and Second Sleep hypothesis about how pre-modern humans apparently slept in two periods with a segment of activity in between?
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Do we have any real reason to believe Australian Aboriginal stories are anywhere near as ancient as people seem to assume they are?
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Why did the French Sister Republics (client states) during the Revolution almost all have bizarrely archaic names?
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Until 1977, Israel's leaders were consistently left wing if not outright socialist. Since then, the Israeli political climate seems much more right leaning. What happened to the Israeli left?
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Do we have any real reason to believe the dreamtime stories are anywhere near as ancient as people seem to assume they are?
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Xiang Yu was the archnemesis of the founder of the Han Dynasty. In spite of this, he is usually depicted by later writers as a tragic hero. How did China's seminal dynasty's greatest obstacle get such a good reputation?
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Would I be right in assuming that the Japanese Warring States period's name (Sengoku Jidai 戦国時代) is an intentional allusion to the much earlier Chinese period of the same name (Zhànguó Shídài 戰國時代)? When, how, and by who was this period named?
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Richard of Cornwall, an English Plantagenet prince, was elected to rule the Holy Roman Empire and did so for fifteen years. How did this happen? How much power did he actually wield?
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Xiang Yu was the archnemesis of the founder of the Han Dynasty. In spite of this, he is usually depicted by later writers as a tragic hero. How did China's seminal dynasty's greatest obstacle get such a good reputation?
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