/u/New_Pakistani's posts

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What prevented Syria [a relatively stable Mediterranean country up to 2011 that possessed hundreds of unique historic sites - Bronze Age, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman - as well as a decent coastline] becoming a Commercialized Mass Tourist destination in the manner that Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Spain did?	860	AskHistorians
How "Venetian" would the average citizen from an inland city like Brescia or Udine have felt during the time of the Venetian Empire, considering the identity of "Venice" was heavily tied to the City itself, or would most non-Venetians have simply accepted the status quo and felt nothing?	317	AskHistorians
Were Mediterranean Greeks ever aware at any point in time that Eastern Greeks (in places like Bactria, India etc) had 'converted' to a religion called Buddhism and were now churning out Buddhist sculptures and Temples heavily influenced by Greek ideals of beauty?	294	AskHistorians
Venice has been around for 1000 Years. So why is it that so many islands in the Venetian Lagoon still lie totally empty, just grassland/marshland with almost no development? Why didn't the Venetian urban sprawl spread to islands such as Le Vignole, Certosa, Sant'Erasmo as would be expected?	94	AskHistorians
How did the USSR prevent inadvertent Turkish, Persian or Afghan influence creeping into border SSRs like Azerbaijan, Tajikistan etc through everyday media like television? Did Moscow meticulously install signal blockers or depopulate border regions or was it instead relaxed about harmless influence?	92	AskHistorians
Did Venice ever have any citizens (Venetians or later Italians) who had never seen visited the Mainland in their lives? In other words they were born on, lived in, and died on the Venetian islands having never made the boat trip to the Mainland ? Are there any stories/records of anyone like this?	88	AskHistorians
Did English Catholicism naturally die out after the conversion to Protestantism or were there ever any surviving communities who remained Anglo Saxon Catholics? Is there any such thing as an indigenous English Catholic community or after a certain point were all Catholics just Irish Celtic heritage?	54	AskHistorians
What prevented the birth of a Roman Jewish-origin 'Mystery Cult' or 'Religion' even though Romans had direct interaction with Judaism for centuries and were clearly in the business of 'appropriating' religious ideas from most other cultures - Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Indians etc...?	40	AskHistorians
During the 1960s and early 70s, Beirut came to be regarded as the 'Paris of the East' due to its French Architecture. How much of this architectural heritage was destroyed during 1975 - 1990 Civil War and is the Beirut we see today radically different from Beirut of the 1960s/70s ?	31	AskHistorians
Part Science / Part History: Still don't understand the physical process which results in Ground Level being raised after successive Centuries / Millennia... for example why don't we find Ancient Rome crumbling right next to Modern Rome instead being buried underneath as it now is...?	30	AskHistorians

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