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How gender-neutral did medieval Christians consider God?

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It seems to me that Ethiopia for many years was a centralised, large, prosperous monarchy little different from Middle Eastern or European states. It was able to fight off European invaders. Yet today it's poor, corrupt and wracked with ethnic tensions. What happened?

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Rudyard Kipling championed Empire and the "White Man's Burden", until his son's death disillusioned him. But how much did he change his views, and to what extent were people aware of his new views?

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(NSFW) Many Egyptian pharoahs practiced incestual marriage. Why did they not have the Westermarck effect, ie the innate disgust for brother-sister/child-parent sex that most people today have? NSFW

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I'm an eligible 14th century peasant's daughter, but the only eligible bachelors in my small village are my cousins and second cousins. Does anyone care if I break the Church's taboo on consanguinity? Would it be different in the 11th century?

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To what extent would modern Judaism be recognisable to a Jew from 1000 years ago? What about 2000 years ago?

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The Mongol empire was famously religiously tolerant. So why did Genghis Khan ban Muslim practices?

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Why exactly does Kurdistan not exist?

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Oliver Cromwell reversed the English ban on Jews. Did this make much difference to the number of Jews in England?

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Even in today's urbanised Britain, there are too many deer and we have to cull them, as they have no natural predators. Were there tons and tons of deer in the Middle Ages? Did people eat a lot of venisons?

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How gender-neutral did medieval Christians consider God?	328
It seems to me that Ethiopia for many years was a centralised, large, prosperous monarchy little different from Middle Eastern or European states. It was able to fight off European invaders. Yet today it's poor, corrupt and wracked with ethnic tensions. What happened?	324
Rudyard Kipling championed Empire and the "White Man's Burden", until his son's death disillusioned him. But how much did he change his views, and to what extent were people aware of his new views?	304
(NSFW) Many Egyptian pharoahs practiced incestual marriage. Why did they not have the Westermarck effect, ie the innate disgust for brother-sister/child-parent sex that most people today have? NSFW	287
I'm an eligible 14th century peasant's daughter, but the only eligible bachelors in my small village are my cousins and second cousins. Does anyone care if I break the Church's taboo on consanguinity? Would it be different in the 11th century?	278
To what extent would modern Judaism be recognisable to a Jew from 1000 years ago? What about 2000 years ago?	277
The Mongol empire was famously religiously tolerant. So why did Genghis Khan ban Muslim practices?	268
Why exactly does Kurdistan not exist?	267
Oliver Cromwell reversed the English ban on Jews. Did this make much difference to the number of Jews in England?	267
Even in today's urbanised Britain, there are too many deer and we have to cull them, as they have no natural predators. Were there tons and tons of deer in the Middle Ages? Did people eat a lot of venisons?	257