/u/PablomentFanquedelic's posts
At what point in Greek history did Sparta become so powerful that elites from elsewhere in ancient Greece started sent their sons to train there? I know this phenomenon happened, but does anyone know when it began? And did non-Greeks ever send their sons to train in Sparta?
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I'm on a bit of a Roman Empire kick, so: what happened to everyone in Cleopatra's court after Augustus conquered Egypt?
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I've heard Bougainville's Nagovisi people called matriarchal, but Papua in general and Bougainville in particular have some of the world's highest rates of misogynistic violence. Is this characterization of the Nagovisi accurate? If so, were other Papuans also less patriarchal before colonialism?
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What do we know about the status of Hurrian women compared to that of women in the rest of the Middle East?
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I know self-described socialists (like Nasser in Egypt and the Ba'athists in Syria and Iraq) have played an important role in postcolonial Arab politics, but were they involved in early nationalism after WW1?
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Another Roman-related question: how much did Greek society retain its own identity under Roman rule, and how much was it assimilated?
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What were the standards of proof in premodern courts before forensic science? How would, say, a fair Roman court reasonably determine that someone had committed a crime?
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