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How do historians deal with issues of scale?

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What can I realistically learn about history from reading Asterix and Obelix?

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Do we know if grappling played a role in sword fighting?

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How far back do we know that people had some type of weekly cycle?

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Were there any memoirs relating to Hitler's service in WWI?

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How do historians use the term "civilization"?

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Example and question regarding historical use of suicide tactics

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We hear a lot about AIM and other Native American/Indigenous rights movements of the 60s and onwards, but what type of activism was going on prior to the long march and the birth of AIM, going back to the beginning of the century?

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What do we know about the waves of immigration that originally settled the Americas?

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Is there a nice overview book just describing relationships between and migrations of all the various people groups of the planet?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How do historians deal with issues of scale?	47
What can I realistically learn about history from reading Asterix and Obelix?	33
Do we know if grappling played a role in sword fighting?	17
How far back do we know that people had some type of weekly cycle?	15
Were there any memoirs relating to Hitler's service in WWI?	12
How do historians use the term "civilization"?	10
Example and question regarding historical use of suicide tactics	7
We hear a lot about AIM and other Native American/Indigenous rights movements of the 60s and onwards, but what type of activism was going on prior to the long march and the birth of AIM, going back to the beginning of the century?	7
What do we know about the waves of immigration that originally settled the Americas?	5
Is there a nice overview book just describing relationships between and migrations of all the various people groups of the planet?	5