/u/Paulie_Gatto's posts

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Aside from naval vessels, what sort of ships would one find trawling the waters of the North Sea in WWI and WWII? What did either power do to regulate maritime traffic, and how difficult was it for both those enforcing a blockade and those having to work with it (or around it)?	8	AskHistorians
Was one of the reasons European nations went to war in 1914 fear of socialist revolution at home - that patriotic duty could distract and end the increasingly violent labor struggle? Read this in a textbook, but haven't come across this reasoning before, so curious to know more about it.	8	AskHistorians
During a time when heretics were burned at the stake, how "free" were Jews to critique Christian religion in Europe, either in their writings or in public?	8	AskHistorians
How did Guan Yu become deified across multiple religions as a god of war? Is this only found within Chinese and Chinese-descended communities?	8	AskHistorians
World War I is said to have killed 19th century romantic notions of war. What were the perceived notions of say the Franco-Prussian War? Or Russo-Japanese or the Balkans wars? Did individual soldiers describe these as life-affirming experiences?	8	AskHistorians
In Southern re-tellings of Reconstruction Era America, corrupt carpetbaggers and scalawags dominated the region. How true is that aspect of Reconstruction - was post-Civil War South more corrupt than other areas of the United States at the time? Or is that a Southern exaggeration?	7	AskHistorians
Who did Ancient Egyptian tomb robbers plan to sell to? Foreign merchants, Egyptian nobles, themselves, others? Did Egypt attempt to police the market of stolen grave goods of the pharaohs?	7	AskHistorians
Marcus Garvey seems to have been rather controversial in the Black community in America - from privately meeting with the leader of the KKK to going to jail and blaming the NAACP and DuBois. Yet it seems these controversies haven't marred his reputation, where he is likened to Malcolm X. Why is that	7	AskHistorians
What was the policy of the Soviet Union, the PRC, Cuba etc. towards tobacco use? How did Communist governments respond to the anti-tobacco movements in the West?	7	AskHistorians
Could someone break down the 1-3 million killed figure for the Crusades? How did historians come to a number? Who is included - people killed in battles and massacres in Europe and the Middle East? Does it include those who died on the way to their Crusades?	7	AskHistorians

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