/u/Seswatha's posts
What made Chinese porcelain so hard to reproduce for Europeans? How and when did Europeans manage to finally break the Chinese monopoly?
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When European powers ruled over Muslim countries, did they preferentially choose local Christians for native-filled administrative positions? Did they support Christianization or missionary efforts? Was there any sort of Crusading mentality?
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Given the etymological origins of words like Vlach or Welsh or Walloon meaning 'foreigner', does that mean early Germanic peoples had a sort of common identity similar to the Greeks?
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The Inca managed to build a large empire without writing. Is it possible that large empires existed in the Old World before writing?
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Did any ancient or medieval Chinese scholars or philosophers ever create their own characters for the sake of an argument?
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In the event the Cold War turned into a hot conventional war, what would have been US policy if it seemed the Soviets were about to capture American over-seas nuclear assets? Would the nukes be self-destructed, or would the US initiate a first-strike?
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In the national anthem of the Netherlands, William of Orange is referred to as "van Duytschen bloet." Before the advent of German nationalism, what exactly would Deutsch and its dialectal variants have meant to people who used it?
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Was the medieval French monarch especially weaker than his contemporaries? And if so, how did it reach that point?
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