/u/Vambrosek's posts
Repost: I know that the Ottoman Empire tried to codify Sharia into a secular western-style body of law called the Mecelle. Why was the Mecelle not adopted throughout the Muslim world and were there efforts similar to the Mecelle?
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Repost: In the old days, it seems like dissident aristocrats in exile could just go somewhere and "raise" an army. How exactly would someone raise an army before mass media, telephones, the internet, or the administrative state? Hire mercenaries? Go door to door? Announcement in the town square?
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In the movie Kingdom of Heaven, Saladin is shown having a bowl of crushed ice to cool his drinks while he travels with his army. How did people make and keep ice back then? Especially in deserts?
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When and why did the "corporation" become the dominant business entity in America, when all of the great gilded age companies were organized as "trusts?"
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In the ancient world, scholars always seem so able to translate complex literary and philosophical works of other cultures. How did language education even work prior to modern schooling and textbooks? Wouldn't it have taken years, or even generations to develop that kind of competency?
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Let's talk ancient sports science. Today, bodybuilders and athletes take a variety of whey proteins, creatine, have special diets, etc. Where there any rituals in the ancient or medieval world that people believed would help build muscle or just increase overall fitness?
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Banking has existed for centuries, dating back to when most people were peasants. When did it become common for "regular" people to have their own personal bank accounts?
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