/u/RusticBohemian's posts

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America suffered no major foreign terrorist attacks in the 21 years since 9/11. What happened elements of the 9/11 response kept the country safe?	1	AskHistorians
Did Ancient Greeks and Romans fear death less than we do today?	1	AskHistorians
The Chinese and the Tibetans were conquered by the Manchus and incorporated into their empire. Now China claims Tibet. Isn't that like Singapore claiming India because they were both conquered by the British Empire? What context am I missing?	1	AskHistorians
Were the mindset and values of the Native Americans on North America's eastern seaboard dramatically different than the European colonists they encountered?	1	AskHistorians
Was the Native American corn-beans-squash three sisters triad sustainable by itself, or only because it was used as part of a forest management strategy that involved forest burning and regrowth?	1	askscience
The first count of civilian federal employees in the US happened around 1812, and found just 5,000. Was a segment of the political spectrum complaining that this number was outrageously high, or had the smaller government = better government political view not yet appeared? When would it?	1	AskHistorians
Plato seems to have used Socrates as a meat puppet to spout his theory of forms, perhaps in a bid to give it more legitimacy. Would his contemporaries have seen this as being in poor form, or a completely legitimate approach to introducing an idea?	1	AskHistorians
Foreign countries with oil and gas reserves have grown incredibly wealthy over the last century by taxing sales and socking profits away in well-managed sovereign wealth funds. Did the US federal government ever seriously consider creating their own sovereign wealth fund?	1	AskHistorians
Was heart disease responsible for the most deaths among people surviving into later adulthood in your premodern culture of specialty? How novel, historically, is heart disease's place at the top of the killer board in the modern world?	1	AskHistorians
The roaring twenties followed on the heels of the devastating 1918 Flu Pandemic. When did people recognize they'd exited the doldrums and entered a period of economic boom and cultural efflorescence? How much awareness of this change was there?	1	AskHistorians

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