/u/RusticBohemian's posts

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Was Plato BSing us when he suggested he had a separate, hidden philosophical system which he never covered in his writings?	44	AskHistorians
The "Office of the Revels," organized everything from feasts to productions of Shakespeare's plays for English monarchs. What did this "office" look like, and were its staff well known? Was it the Renaissance equivalent of an event planner, or a huge staff directly involved in manufacturing art?	43	AskHistorians
How successful were the Muslim conquerors of Spain at converting the Christian population to Islam? Do we know how they went about it? How quickly did their subjects convert to Christianity after the Reconquista?	43	AskHistorians
Did the 5th-century western Roman empire have a "collapse of civilizational self-confidence," and so "permitted (Rome) to be sacked?"	43	AskHistorians
The Pennsylvania "walking purchase," and Queen Dido's Carthaginian oxhide shinanigans suggest that colonizing powers often sought to honor the letter of their agreements with natives rather than the intended spirit, to their own gain. How common were these creative interpretation tricks?	43	AskHistorians
Did humans have fleas most of the time before the modern era? Did battling fleas require constant effort?	43	AskHistorians
The World Bank is blamed for saddling third-world nations with debt thanks to its high-interest-rate loans. Is this a fair criticism? And is the bank supposed to be breaking even with its loans, or actually making a profit? What is their meta financial strategy?	43	AskHistorians
Richard II revoked London's charter and the city tried to convince him to give it back with a big party. What was Richard's beef with London and how did the feasting and merrymaking work out as a political strategy?	42	AskHistorians
"The Bomber Mafia," describes the disastrous failure of precision bombing in the European theater during WWII, and its replacement with widescale bombing/burning of entire cities in Japan. But most German cities were leveled. How did this happen with precision bombing? Or did the British do it all?	42	AskHistorians
Byzantine and Renaissance scholars wrote commentaries on Plato and Aristotle. Are those commentaries considered relevant today, or has scholarship moved on enough that these commentaries would seem very dated or totally irrelevant?	42	AskHistorians

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