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How did soldiers sleep in open battles that lasted for days ?

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My history teacher told me Hitler hated the word Aryan because it used to indicate a language group (indo europeans) at the time and instead he preferred the term "nordic race", is this true ?

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How did WW2 tactics change after modern anti-tank weapons such as the US Bazooka, the Soviet RPG and the German panzerfaust became more popular in 1942-43 ?

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How did Ethiopia survive so many empires ? From the roman empire to the islamic caliphates to the ottoman empire everyone could've attack Ethiopia.

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How did ancient European tribe co-ordinate their massive migrations ? What were the logistics ? How did Germanics, for example, manage to migrate in numbers as high as half a milion like for example the Cimbrian migration of 101 BCE ?

138 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Before the discovery of the Americas the Catholic Church justified slavery on Theocratic basis, after the colonization of the new world however they started to despise it and even armed Native americans to fight slavery in Spanish colonies, what caused this radical shift in policy towards slavery?

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How is it possible for Malta to still speak a semitic language despite all the male population was exiled in celano in 1223 and all the arabs were removed from the island in 1224 ?

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In the years following the Greco-Turkish war Turkey suffered a massive population growth, growing from a little over 13 milion people in 1927 to 80 milion people today, Greece on the other had remained almost stagnant compared to Turkey, why ?

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How did Corsica manage to keep its italian language and culture after 300 years of French rule while Nice and Savoy quickly got de-italianized after they were bought in 1860 ?

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Was Rome in middle ages a "Ghost city" ?

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How did soldiers sleep in open battles that lasted for days ?	150	AskHistorians
My history teacher told me Hitler hated the word Aryan because it used to indicate a language group (indo europeans) at the time and instead he preferred the term "nordic race", is this true ?	149	AskHistorians
How did WW2 tactics change after modern anti-tank weapons such as the US Bazooka, the Soviet RPG and the German panzerfaust became more popular in 1942-43 ?	141	AskHistorians
How did Ethiopia survive so many empires ? From the roman empire to the islamic caliphates to the ottoman empire everyone could've attack Ethiopia.	140	AskHistorians
How did ancient European tribe co-ordinate their massive migrations ? What were the logistics ? How did Germanics, for example, manage to migrate in numbers as high as half a milion like for example the Cimbrian migration of 101 BCE ?	138	AskHistorians
Before the discovery of the Americas the Catholic Church justified slavery on Theocratic basis, after the colonization of the new world however they started to despise it and even armed Native americans to fight slavery in Spanish colonies, what caused this radical shift in policy towards slavery?	128	AskHistorians
How is it possible for Malta to still speak a semitic language despite all the male population was exiled in celano in 1223 and all the arabs were removed from the island in 1224 ?	125	AskHistorians
In the years following the Greco-Turkish war Turkey suffered a massive population growth, growing from a little over 13 milion people in 1927 to 80 milion people today, Greece on the other had remained almost stagnant compared to Turkey, why ?	103	AskHistorians
How did Corsica manage to keep its italian language and culture after 300 years of French rule while Nice and Savoy quickly got de-italianized after they were bought in 1860 ?	95	AskHistorians
Was Rome in middle ages a "Ghost city" ?	91	AskHistorians