/u/VicomteChateaubriand's posts in /r/askhistorians
Did Eastern Roman Empire claim Western Roman territory after its fall? And was Odoacer under Julius Nepos or Zeno?
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How justified was the reason for Charlemagne's coronation that empress Irene was the first Roman female monarch? And how did it change the acceptance of Byzantine suzerainty across Europe?
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Does moral/ethical progress exist in history or is it era defined (ie. something that was seen as progressive before is now a relic of the past)?
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Didn't increased centralization of medieval monarchies bring back all the logistical problems with running the state from one place? What changed?
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The United States since the 1970s has seen 70% faster decline of Protestantism than Catholicism, yet atheist strongholds are in famously catholic New England. Why is that?
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If Asians had their continent mapped before Columbus, why didn't Europeans simply look at them and deduce that Columbus wasn't in India?
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Since the 1860s Japan saw a massive influence by Wester European fashion, so much so that Japanese emperors abandoned wearing traditional Japanese clothing in favor of European ones within a single generation. How was end of isolationism related to this "standardization" of Western-style fashion?
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