/u/RusticBohemian's posts
Was Abraham Lincoln a good lawyer? Was he as effective at convincing juries using the same relentless logic and clarity displayed in political speeches such as his Peoria speech?
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Why did some civilizations, like the Vikings, struggle with declining soil fertility, while other civilizations don't seem to have been affected by it much? What technologies or practices set those that maintained soil fertility apart?
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Why were the Numidians such a dominant cavalry force, and how did they adapt to become "civilized" so quickly?
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How was Catherine the Great — a foreign-born German princess — able to convince a regiment of Russian soldiers and high Russian Orthodox Church officials to support her coup after only a few years married to the emperor?
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Pope Pius XII famously stayed silent as Italy's Jews were carted away to concentration camps. Was the pope worried he would be dethroned or killed, or that the newly-independent Vatican would be reabsorbed into Italy? How complicit was the pope?
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Three of Athens' most prominent sons - Socrates, Plato, and Xenophon - did not think highly of the democratic assembly of their home. How common was this sentiment, and just how dysfunctional was the Athenian government for most of its history?
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The Villa of the Papyri in Pompei had an Epicurean-themed library. Why do historians think it also contained a far larger general library?
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Why was Pope Gregory X unable to rally Europeans to assist the ailing Crusading States? Had there been some sort of shift that made further crusades less appealing?
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