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Why did the Great Heathen Army invade Northumbria?

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What was the Islamic world's response to Darwin's Origin of Species?

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Many modern idioms are often based on modern sports, technology, animals from foreign countries (stick your head in the sand, etc); what were common themes for Middle English idioms?

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Did the collapse of the Western Roman Empire make much difference to a 5th century Syrian, Egyptian, Palestinian or Greek?

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Anti-Black racism in Ireland

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How ridiculous or plausible are the non-miraculous parts of the Book of Judges?

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Some medieval nations in Western Europe allowed women to inherit the throne and some did not. Did this make any difference to the way women were treated in those countries generally?

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How much of the year did medieval peasants spend farming? What did they do the rest of the time?

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What is current scholarship on the links between flood myths?

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How much did medieval Ethiopians know of Christian Europe? Did they consider Catholics and Orthodox to be essentially the same religion as them, or heretics?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did the Great Heathen Army invade Northumbria?	62
What was the Islamic world's response to Darwin's Origin of Species?	60
Many modern idioms are often based on modern sports, technology, animals from foreign countries (stick your head in the sand, etc); what were common themes for Middle English idioms?	60
Did the collapse of the Western Roman Empire make much difference to a 5th century Syrian, Egyptian, Palestinian or Greek?	59
Anti-Black racism in Ireland	59
How ridiculous or plausible are the non-miraculous parts of the Book of Judges?	58
Some medieval nations in Western Europe allowed women to inherit the throne and some did not. Did this make any difference to the way women were treated in those countries generally?	58
How much of the year did medieval peasants spend farming? What did they do the rest of the time?	57
What is current scholarship on the links between flood myths?	57
How much did medieval Ethiopians know of Christian Europe? Did they consider Catholics and Orthodox to be essentially the same religion as them, or heretics?	57