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What allowed Charlemagne to create a professional army in the Early Middle Ages, when the realms of the High Middle Ages were unable to create professional armies?

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Was Alexander the Great's conquest of the Middle East in the 300s BC still known to Islamic historians in 1000 AD? If so, how much detail was known?

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By what year were most cities in Europe rebuilt from WW2 damage? 1950? 1955? 1960? Beyond?

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Given the Nazis' views on homosexuality, how did the openly gay Ernst Röhm become the leader of 3,000,000 Nazi "Brownshirts" in the Sturmabteilung?

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Did the Empire of Japan have any plans for what they would do if they had conquered Australia?

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Frederick the Great's Prussia had 1 soldier for every 28 citizens. How did this ratio compare to Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars, Franco-Prussian War, and Germany in WW1?

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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, why did some groups of European immigrants to the United States immigrate mostly to rural areas, like German Americans, while others, immigrated mostly to urban areas, like Italian Americans?

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During the Soviet Union, were there any significant gulag revolts or gulag escapes?

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Was Alexander the Great's army actually more technologically or organizationally advanced than the Persians, or was he just a really skilled commander? Or did he just get lucky?

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When the US recruited former Nazi rocket scientists in Operation Paperclip, did existing Jewish-American engineers protest against the ideological baggage the Nazi scientists would have brought with them?

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What allowed Charlemagne to create a professional army in the Early Middle Ages, when the realms of the High Middle Ages were unable to create professional armies?	1659	AskHistorians
Was Alexander the Great's conquest of the Middle East in the 300s BC still known to Islamic historians in 1000 AD? If so, how much detail was known?	995	AskHistorians
By what year were most cities in Europe rebuilt from WW2 damage? 1950? 1955? 1960? Beyond?	743	AskHistorians
Given the Nazis' views on homosexuality, how did the openly gay Ernst Röhm become the leader of 3,000,000 Nazi "Brownshirts" in the Sturmabteilung?	639	AskHistorians
Did the Empire of Japan have any plans for what they would do if they had conquered Australia?	143	AskHistorians
Frederick the Great's Prussia had 1 soldier for every 28 citizens. How did this ratio compare to Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars, Franco-Prussian War, and Germany in WW1?	142	AskHistorians
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, why did some groups of European immigrants to the United States immigrate mostly to rural areas, like German Americans, while others, immigrated mostly to urban areas, like Italian Americans?	136	AskHistorians
During the Soviet Union, were there any significant gulag revolts or gulag escapes?	117	AskHistorians
Was Alexander the Great's army actually more technologically or organizationally advanced than the Persians, or was he just a really skilled commander? Or did he just get lucky?	78	AskHistorians
When the US recruited former Nazi rocket scientists in Operation Paperclip, did existing Jewish-American engineers protest against the ideological baggage the Nazi scientists would have brought with them?	69	AskHistorians