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We keep improving firearms and making newer models, but how are modern firearms better than WWII-era guns beyond carrying more bullets and shooting faster?

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Marcus Aurelius was the first Roman Emperor since Augustus to take a serious crack at conquering Central Europe, planning on creating two new provinces - what changed between Augustus and him to make it feasible?

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Cato the Younger is lauded for his staunch defense of the Roman Republic and refusal to compromise. But wasn't Cato's refusal to compromise a large reason why the Republic tore itself apart — because the senate refused to compromise and address very real economic, social, and political problems?

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Cicero is characterized as being friends with his educated slave and secretary, Tiro. How "friendly" was their relationship? Did Tiro have to call Cicero "master?"

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Medieval castles are iconic, but were they really superior to the Roman Empire's larger forts?

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How did "Nader's Raiders," as a civilian organization of law students, gain access to government data in 1968 so it could investigate the Federal Trade Commission and find that it was failing in its duties?

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Zionists created a homeland for themselves in Isreal. But were there any other realistic locations for their Jewish state? Did any of them come close to seeing fruition?

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How did the square-based army formations of the Byzantine Macedonian renaissance compare to the square Tercio of the Spanish?

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What did the Aztec economy look like? Was it a free market? Heavily regulated? Totally planned like the Incas to the South?

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When Khosrow II of the Sasanid Persians captured Egypt, Palestine and the eastern mediterranean world from the Romans/Byzantines, would he have been aware that his predecessors, the Achaemenid Persians, had lost those same lands to the Romans hundreds of years earlier?

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We keep improving firearms and making newer models, but how are modern firearms better than WWII-era guns beyond carrying more bullets and shooting faster?	12	AskHistorians
Marcus Aurelius was the first Roman Emperor since Augustus to take a serious crack at conquering Central Europe, planning on creating two new provinces - what changed between Augustus and him to make it feasible?	12	AskHistorians
Cato the Younger is lauded for his staunch defense of the Roman Republic and refusal to compromise. But wasn't Cato's refusal to compromise a large reason why the Republic tore itself apart — because the senate refused to compromise and address very real economic, social, and political problems?	12	AskHistorians
Cicero is characterized as being friends with his educated slave and secretary, Tiro. How "friendly" was their relationship? Did Tiro have to call Cicero "master?"	12	AskHistorians
Medieval castles are iconic, but were they really superior to the Roman Empire's larger forts?	12	AskHistorians
How did "Nader's Raiders," as a civilian organization of law students, gain access to government data in 1968 so it could investigate the Federal Trade Commission and find that it was failing in its duties?	12	AskHistorians
Zionists created a homeland for themselves in Isreal. But were there any other realistic locations for their Jewish state? Did any of them come close to seeing fruition?	12	AskHistorians
How did the square-based army formations of the Byzantine Macedonian renaissance compare to the square Tercio of the Spanish?	12	AskHistorians
What did the Aztec economy look like? Was it a free market? Heavily regulated? Totally planned like the Incas to the South?	12	AskHistorians
When Khosrow II of the Sasanid Persians captured Egypt, Palestine and the eastern mediterranean world from the Romans/Byzantines, would he have been aware that his predecessors, the Achaemenid Persians, had lost those same lands to the Romans hundreds of years earlier?	12	AskHistorians