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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
I'm a French peasant living near Orleans in the 11th Century. How far away from my rural village can I go before my own French dialect becomes unintelligible to other French people?	52	AskHistorians
Did social mobility exist in any of the various bronze age civilizations of note? Could a lowly peasant grow to be a wealthy landowner in Old Kingdom Egypt? If so, how commonly? What about Xia-era China? Was social mobility present in any Mesopotamian civilizations, or any Hellenistic city-states?	40	AskHistorians
So I started volunteering at a wildlife refuge recently...	39	nosleep
[WP] Vampires Can Only Drink Blood of People They Would Otherwise Be Able to Receive Transfusions From. You're O Negative.	38	WritingPrompts
How "Necessary" Was The Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan?	29	AskHistorians
Before the Islamic conquests, what sort of alcohol culture did we see in the region now known as the Middle East? What sort of crops did the people there use to brew beer, wine, liquor, or other intoxicating beverages? Did the Zoroastrian religious authorities have any specific opinions on alcohol?	25	AskHistorians
Anatolia was once a center of Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilization, with states such as the Hittites, the Phyrgians, the Lydians, Pontus, and others arising from and having their power base in the region. When and why, then, did Anatolia become less important to geopolitics in the region?	24	AskHistorians
Most animals have relatively short childhoods and adolescences, lasting together at a few years at most. At what point in human evolution did we begin to have relatively longer childhoods and adolescences? What drivers were in place that necessitated this change in our life cycle?	11	askscience
During the Meiji and Taisho eras, Japan became an industrialized nation. However, I'm curious as to what degree this extended to rural Japan. On Emperor Showa's ascent, how modernized was the Japanese countryside? Had electricity, trains, and other amenities yet managed to reach the villages?	11	AskHistorians
The Great Jewish Revolt took place only a few decades after the life of Jesus and the beginnings of Christianity. What - if any - influence did early Christianity have on the Great Jewish Revolt, and how did early Christians view the Revolt, if we know?	10	AskHistorians

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