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Ancient gymnastics seems synonymous with calisthenic exercise, without much representation at the ancient Olympics, and with no competitive element. What did ancient gymnastics look like? Would we find any modern gymnastic events on display in ancient gymnasiums? Was the sport at all competitive?

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The First Crusade drew 80-100k soldiers from Western Europe to the Middle East. Did this significantly deplete the continent's fighting power?

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Were Iraqi generals and Saddam Hussein at all hopeful they could fend off an attack by the US and its allies during the Gulf War?

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Crusading nobles from Europe mortgaged their lands so they could afford to lead men to Jerusalem. What happened to all those mortgaged estates? Did some lords or their heirs get it back, or was it all seized by creditors?

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The Greek philospher Theophrastus wrote a lot about plants, including desert plants like the date palm. Did he leave Athens and the Lyceum to travel to the middle east to experience these plants?

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World War I surprised the world when it broke out, but World War II was widely predicted. Why did contemporaries see signs for the second war-in-the-making, but not the first?

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A few thousand Greeks standing bravely against countless Persians at Thermopylae — how accurate is the popular understanding of the battle to "save western civilization?"

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Roughly how many "genetic Turks" moved into Anatolia as they conquered it from the Byzantine Empire, and afterward? Are the Turks today mostly of the same genetic stock as existed under the Byzantines, with a bit of Turkic DNA mixed in? Or did most of the original inhabitants get replaced?

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Classical Greece never managed to unify, and its decentralized city-states were always clashing. This is often described as a bug, but was it also a feature?

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Did the average crusader head to the holy land with the intention of getting some land and settling down, or just to loot a bit of wealth before heading home?

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Ancient gymnastics seems synonymous with calisthenic exercise, without much representation at the ancient Olympics, and with no competitive element. What did ancient gymnastics look like? Would we find any modern gymnastic events on display in ancient gymnasiums? Was the sport at all competitive?	6	AskHistorians
The First Crusade drew 80-100k soldiers from Western Europe to the Middle East. Did this significantly deplete the continent's fighting power?	6	AskHistorians
Were Iraqi generals and Saddam Hussein at all hopeful they could fend off an attack by the US and its allies during the Gulf War?	6	AskHistorians
Crusading nobles from Europe mortgaged their lands so they could afford to lead men to Jerusalem. What happened to all those mortgaged estates? Did some lords or their heirs get it back, or was it all seized by creditors?	6	AskHistorians
The Greek philospher Theophrastus wrote a lot about plants, including desert plants like the date palm. Did he leave Athens and the Lyceum to travel to the middle east to experience these plants?	6	AskHistorians
World War I surprised the world when it broke out, but World War II was widely predicted. Why did contemporaries see signs for the second war-in-the-making, but not the first?	6	AskHistorians
A few thousand Greeks standing bravely against countless Persians at Thermopylae — how accurate is the popular understanding of the battle to "save western civilization?"	6	AskHistorians
Roughly how many "genetic Turks" moved into Anatolia as they conquered it from the Byzantine Empire, and afterward? Are the Turks today mostly of the same genetic stock as existed under the Byzantines, with a bit of Turkic DNA mixed in? Or did most of the original inhabitants get replaced?	6	AskHistorians
Classical Greece never managed to unify, and its decentralized city-states were always clashing. This is often described as a bug, but was it also a feature?	6	AskHistorians
Did the average crusader head to the holy land with the intention of getting some land and settling down, or just to loot a bit of wealth before heading home?	6	AskHistorians