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Where and when was the earliest recorded use of elephants in battle? Did the practice originate in one region and spread from there, or spontaneously in several places?

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What age were ancient soldiers?

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How (if at all) did ancient cities such as Athens and Rome keep their war strategies a secret in cases where those strategies were decided by debate in the senate?

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Is there only one version of Greek mythology? Were the stories already fixed and settled by the time of Socrates, or was it more fluid than that? Was/is there a 'canonical' version and when and by whom was it established?

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Where are the first-hand accounts of Carthage?

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Did the Romans know how far north Germania extended? If they had, would they have made a greater effort to expand beyond the Rhine (e.g. to the Oder or Vistula) to have a shorter border encompassing more land?

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A question for the mods: since people who have studied history can give such insightful perspective to current events, could we have an "AskHistorians about the present" day?

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Other than those of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, are there historical travel accounts that are worthy of similar fame but are not popularly known?

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When did people first start to use writing as a short-term memory aid (e.g. for shopping lists or hand-held speech notes)?

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Why do we still use the two names Hercules and Heracles? Aren't they referring to the same god, but just in different languages? Why make this distinction when referring to him in the English language? We would not say that a German-speaker believes in Gott.

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Where and when was the earliest recorded use of elephants in battle? Did the practice originate in one region and spread from there, or spontaneously in several places?	11
What age were ancient soldiers?	8
How (if at all) did ancient cities such as Athens and Rome keep their war strategies a secret in cases where those strategies were decided by debate in the senate?	7
Is there only one version of Greek mythology? Were the stories already fixed and settled by the time of Socrates, or was it more fluid than that? Was/is there a 'canonical' version and when and by whom was it established?	7
Where are the first-hand accounts of Carthage?	5
Did the Romans know how far north Germania extended? If they had, would they have made a greater effort to expand beyond the Rhine (e.g. to the Oder or Vistula) to have a shorter border encompassing more land?	4
A question for the mods: since people who have studied history can give such insightful perspective to current events, could we have an "AskHistorians about the present" day?	3
Other than those of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, are there historical travel accounts that are worthy of similar fame but are not popularly known?	3
When did people first start to use writing as a short-term memory aid (e.g. for shopping lists or hand-held speech notes)?	3
Why do we still use the two names Hercules and Heracles? Aren't they referring to the same god, but just in different languages? Why make this distinction when referring to him in the English language? We would not say that a German-speaker believes in Gott.	3