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What kind of plants should I include in my ancient Roman garden?

1245 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] A man who was thought to be infertile has recently had his genome mapped. As it turns out, he isn't infertile. He's another species of human.

514 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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Did currency exchange occur at all in the ancient world? And if so, how would it work? What if I wanted to exchange a denari for a drachma?

172 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] You have discovered a heavily weathered wooden door in the middle of a desert. Opening the door reveals a world with eternally gray skies and endless fields of wheat. While exploring, you discover that somebody has come here before...

169 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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Did Classical Greeks know much about the Mycenaean Greeks?

96 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Before Virgil and the Aeneid, did Romans believe Aeneas founded the Roman race, or was that idea constructed by Virgil as propaganda?

65 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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At What Point Did We Stop Being Civilizations?

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Were there people in Classical Antiquity who still possessed knowledge of Linear A/B/Cretan Hieroglyphics or attempted to decipher the scripts?

48 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How much Pre-Indo-European vocabulary did Indo-European languages absorb? Which Indo-European language has the highest amount of non-Indo-European words?

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Descendants of the Etruscans.

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What kind of plants should I include in my ancient Roman garden?	1245	AskHistorians
[WP] A man who was thought to be infertile has recently had his genome mapped. As it turns out, he isn't infertile. He's another species of human.	514	WritingPrompts
Did currency exchange occur at all in the ancient world? And if so, how would it work? What if I wanted to exchange a denari for a drachma?	172	AskHistorians
[WP] You have discovered a heavily weathered wooden door in the middle of a desert. Opening the door reveals a world with eternally gray skies and endless fields of wheat. While exploring, you discover that somebody has come here before...	169	WritingPrompts
Did Classical Greeks know much about the Mycenaean Greeks?	96	AskHistorians
Before Virgil and the Aeneid, did Romans believe Aeneas founded the Roman race, or was that idea constructed by Virgil as propaganda?	65	AskHistorians
At What Point Did We Stop Being Civilizations?	49	AskHistorians
Were there people in Classical Antiquity who still possessed knowledge of Linear A/B/Cretan Hieroglyphics or attempted to decipher the scripts?	48	AskHistorians
How much Pre-Indo-European vocabulary did Indo-European languages absorb? Which Indo-European language has the highest amount of non-Indo-European words?	33	AskHistorians
Descendants of the Etruscans.	31	AskHistorians