/u/TanktopSamurai's posts in /r/AskHistorians
How much migrations was there between the Ancient Greek and Phoenicians city? Would I be able to find Greeks in Tyre or Phonecians living Athens?
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Was Napoleon himself martially skilled i..e skilled at shooting, riding, sword-fighting ? Would officers and general at the time have been trained in such things?
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Ivory was an important trade good for the Swahili city states. Who would have hunted elephants that the ivory came from? How would they have done it?
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I am told that the modern popular retelling of the Gallileo affair is inaccurate. When did this inaccurate retelling appeared?
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When Ancient Greek texts were being translated to Arabic, would the translators been able to speak the contemporary Greek spoken in Constantinople? Did the scholars of Middle East interact with the Greek scholars?
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Consuls and Emperors were both Roman in origin and both used by France after the Revolution. Is there a significance to France using these Roman terms?
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