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The new Netflix series 'Frontier' portrays the 18th century fur trade as extremely violent and competitive. Was it really as brutal as the show depicts?
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Prior to the introduction of firearms, did militaries ever have archers, slingers, etc. that acted as "snipers" or marksmen?
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How accurate is James Clavell's "Shogun" in terms of medieval Japanese culture, social systems, warfare, etc.?
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In Desmond Seward's "The Hundred Years War", the author refers to a royal bride as "sluttish". This struck me as a very harsh word to use in a history book, but I had also never heard it before. Why use this particular word over something like "promiscuous"? NSFW
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In Robert Louis Stevenson's *Treasure Island*, a pirate is given the 'Black Spot' and reacts as though he was given a death sentence. Was there any real equivalent to this among Caribbean pirates?
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How did European late medieval/early renaissance pike squares compare to classical phalanxes? Going head to head, would a phalanx of Athenian hoplites stand a chance against a square of Swiss pikemen?
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What is the consensus among historians about the Sacred Band of Thebes? Were they really 150 pairs of lovers? Or is that just a legend?
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