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Since ancient romans knew the world was a sphere why they never tried to reach China navigating the atlantic ocean to avoid the parthian prices ?

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Why didn't spain wait to find a new admiral instead of sending 130 ships ruled by an army general to conquer england ?

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What were the methods used by poles and czechs to de-germanize areas such as the sudetenland and western poland after ww2 and (in case of the yugoslavs) what was their method to de-italianize Istria and Zadar ? And why France didn't de-germanize alsace ?

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When Italy joined WW1 on the side of the entente they had 1.3 milion troops at the border while Austro-Hungary had only 200.000 men, why wasn't Italy able to totally break the austrian front and capture key areas such as south tyrol and Istria ?

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Which was the primary language of Charles V Von Habsburg ?

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How did Fascist Italy go from 1933 when they saw Zionism and Jews as potential partners in the middle east to undermine British influence to 1938 when they introduced racial laws against the Jews ? Where those anti-semitic laws popular among the population or they were considered too extreme ?

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Why wasn't Bulgaria after WW1 annexed to Yugoslavia despite it was a south slavic country ?

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Fascist italy and Nazi Germany clearly hated Stalin and his stalinist communism, but did they have a different opinion of Lenin and the Old Bolsheviks like Trotsky ?

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Eating Horse meat was made taboo by the Roman Catholic church in the 8th century CE, while this taboo was successfully implemented in almost all of Christian Europe it wasn't in Italy where horse meat is still eaten in great amounts today, why ?

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During the years of lead in italy, when communist terrorists kidnapped, tortured and then killed the Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, many suggested that the kidnapping was sponsored by the US as a way to discredit communism in Italy, is there any basis for this theory or was it just a conspiracy ?

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Since ancient romans knew the world was a sphere why they never tried to reach China navigating the atlantic ocean to avoid the parthian prices ?	84	AskHistorians
Why didn't spain wait to find a new admiral instead of sending 130 ships ruled by an army general to conquer england ?	73	AskHistorians
What were the methods used by poles and czechs to de-germanize areas such as the sudetenland and western poland after ww2 and (in case of the yugoslavs) what was their method to de-italianize Istria and Zadar ? And why France didn't de-germanize alsace ?	69	AskHistorians
When Italy joined WW1 on the side of the entente they had 1.3 milion troops at the border while Austro-Hungary had only 200.000 men, why wasn't Italy able to totally break the austrian front and capture key areas such as south tyrol and Istria ?	69	AskHistorians
Which was the primary language of Charles V Von Habsburg ?	54	AskHistorians
How did Fascist Italy go from 1933 when they saw Zionism and Jews as potential partners in the middle east to undermine British influence to 1938 when they introduced racial laws against the Jews ? Where those anti-semitic laws popular among the population or they were considered too extreme ?	53	AskHistorians
Why wasn't Bulgaria after WW1 annexed to Yugoslavia despite it was a south slavic country ?	45	AskHistorians
Fascist italy and Nazi Germany clearly hated Stalin and his stalinist communism, but did they have a different opinion of Lenin and the Old Bolsheviks like Trotsky ?	44	AskHistorians
Eating Horse meat was made taboo by the Roman Catholic church in the 8th century CE, while this taboo was successfully implemented in almost all of Christian Europe it wasn't in Italy where horse meat is still eaten in great amounts today, why ?	42	AskHistorians
During the years of lead in italy, when communist terrorists kidnapped, tortured and then killed the Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, many suggested that the kidnapping was sponsored by the US as a way to discredit communism in Italy, is there any basis for this theory or was it just a conspiracy ?	41	AskHistorians