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[WP] Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan meet for a game of Risk to determine the greatest conquerer among themselves.

252 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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I am a soldier in a 13th century German army that is currently besieging a castle. But the defenders have enough supplies to hold out several months before surrendering out of hunger. What does my day to day live look like in these months?

228 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Where does the saying "double edged sword" come from? were swords with two edged perceived as particulary dangerous to the user?

163 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] You fall into a coma and wake up in the year 3516, where popular conspiracy theories of our time became the new world religions, that are constantly waging wars against each other.

29 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP]After death, smokers have to spend purgatory picking up their cigarette butts they've thrown on the ground. Only after are they allowed to go to their final resting place

27 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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In the modern days, the military has a lot of non-combat work to do like emergency management in case of natural disasters or virus outbreaks. Was this always the case and what were the first documented cases of an army doing work besides fighting?

25 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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My friend says, that during medieval times 90% of an army would consist of drafted peasants with no prior fighting experience and sub par equipment (like sharpened pieces of wood as an improvised spear) is this true?

11 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Was psychological warfare used in ancient and medieval Sieges?

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[WP] The anti-lottery has opened, every saturday a random person gets drawn to loose millions of dollars.

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When and why did slingshots fall out of favour?

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[WP] Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan meet for a game of Risk to determine the greatest conquerer among themselves.	252	WritingPrompts
I am a soldier in a 13th century German army that is currently besieging a castle. But the defenders have enough supplies to hold out several months before surrendering out of hunger. What does my day to day live look like in these months?	228	AskHistorians
Where does the saying "double edged sword" come from? were swords with two edged perceived as particulary dangerous to the user?	163	AskHistorians
[WP] You fall into a coma and wake up in the year 3516, where popular conspiracy theories of our time became the new world religions, that are constantly waging wars against each other.	29	WritingPrompts
[WP]After death, smokers have to spend purgatory picking up their cigarette butts they've thrown on the ground. Only after are they allowed to go to their final resting place	27	WritingPrompts
In the modern days, the military has a lot of non-combat work to do like emergency management in case of natural disasters or virus outbreaks. Was this always the case and what were the first documented cases of an army doing work besides fighting?	25	AskHistorians
My friend says, that during medieval times 90% of an army would consist of drafted peasants with no prior fighting experience and sub par equipment (like sharpened pieces of wood as an improvised spear) is this true?	11	AskHistorians
Was psychological warfare used in ancient and medieval Sieges?	10	AskHistorians
[WP] The anti-lottery has opened, every saturday a random person gets drawn to loose millions of dollars.	10	WritingPrompts
When and why did slingshots fall out of favour?	2	AskHistorians