/u/RusticBohemian's posts

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The Grand Catalan Company of mercenaries was remarkably successful against the Turks in Anatolia. For centuries, Byzantine troops and the European crusaders who'd aided them only rarely beat Turkish troops. Why were the Catalans able to do so much better?	51	AskHistorians
Did Rome ever come up with any battle tactics that could beat steppe nomads and other cavalry-based armies?	51	AskHistorians
The Greek writer Plutarch mocked ancient Greek religion/mythology, and yet served as a priest at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. What should we make of this arrangement? Was this sort of worship combined with lampooning common?	51	AskHistorians
How did pizza in the United States rise from an obscure poverty dish of immigrant Italians to one of the nation's favorite meals?	51	AskHistorians
General Ulysses S. Grant argued the Confederacy had major advantages over the Union during the U.S. civil war - what do historians make of this claim?	50	AskHistorians
Ben Franklin was a big fan of saving and compound interest and even left money to Boston and Philadelphia to be compounded for 200 years. What sort of interest-bearing investments did Franklin have had access to in Colonial America? Savings accounts? Stock investments?	50	AskHistorians
Olives/olive oil were one of ancient Greece's most valuable exports. But each tree takes 60-80 years to reach stable yields, and incessant inter-polis conflict had armies invading each others' territory frequently. Were the olives destroyed and export wealth cut by these raids?	50	AskHistorians
Were any Greek cities particularly devoted to the worship of Ares, similar to how Athens emphasized the worship of Athena? Was the Athena-Athens level of worship specialization seen elsewhere?	50	AskHistorians
Japan tried to conquer Korea many times during its history. Why were the Japanese so intent on gaining control of Korea when there were plenty of other options around the Pacific, and what was their justification?	49	AskHistorians
Where should we understand Alexander Hamilton's positions to be on the current political spectrum? Or does that modern spectrum even make sense for analyzing Revolutionary War figures?	49	AskHistorians

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