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There's Visigoths and Ostrogoths and Vandals, who spoke Gothic so I'll lump them in with Goths. Did they understand themselves to be Goths or is "Goths" an exonym applied by the Romans to these various East Germanic groups with little relation to one another?

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Many Indian armies in the late 1700s adopted European-style organization and tactics and weaponry. Why did they still frequently fail to defeat the British even when they had numerical superiority?

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The Islamic calendar is fairly unique among calendars in its lack of intercalation. Not only that, intercalation is pretty nakedly forbidden in Islam to the extent that it is mentioned in the Quran. Why did Muhammad have so much beef with the leap year?

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How did the Qing Empire respond to the emigration of thousands of its subjects to the United States during the 1800s?

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The ancestors of the modern Thai and Lao peoples migrated from China to Southeast Asia, where they established kingdoms. Who lived in Thailand and Laos before their arrival, and how did they feel about these new settlers?

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A comment I saw yesterday talked about Japanese expeditions during the 1930s looking for some sort of primordial "master race" that spawned the Japanese. What did Japanese racial theory look like during the 1930s and what was its relationship with German racial theory?

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At what point did the Eastern Roman Empire start to see the Romance speaking peoples of the former Western Empire as decidedly not Roman?

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Modern armies generally cut off recruitment in the 30s or 40s, but in ancient or medieval armies, we see men taking the field well into their 40s or 50s or even older. Were older men more physically fit at the time?

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I'm a British creditor in 1783, the US just became independent, and much of my money is loaned out to Americans. Are they expected to still make payments and if not, would I have any legal recourse to get my money back?

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People always talk about the Khazars as some proto-Israel bastion of medieval Judaism. How "Jewish" really were the Khazars?

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There's Visigoths and Ostrogoths and Vandals, who spoke Gothic so I'll lump them in with Goths. Did they understand themselves to be Goths or is "Goths" an exonym applied by the Romans to these various East Germanic groups with little relation to one another?	316
Many Indian armies in the late 1700s adopted European-style organization and tactics and weaponry. Why did they still frequently fail to defeat the British even when they had numerical superiority?	310
The Islamic calendar is fairly unique among calendars in its lack of intercalation. Not only that, intercalation is pretty nakedly forbidden in Islam to the extent that it is mentioned in the Quran. Why did Muhammad have so much beef with the leap year?	298
How did the Qing Empire respond to the emigration of thousands of its subjects to the United States during the 1800s?	293
The ancestors of the modern Thai and Lao peoples migrated from China to Southeast Asia, where they established kingdoms. Who lived in Thailand and Laos before their arrival, and how did they feel about these new settlers?	292
A comment I saw yesterday talked about Japanese expeditions during the 1930s looking for some sort of primordial "master race" that spawned the Japanese. What did Japanese racial theory look like during the 1930s and what was its relationship with German racial theory?	291
At what point did the Eastern Roman Empire start to see the Romance speaking peoples of the former Western Empire as decidedly not Roman?	287
Modern armies generally cut off recruitment in the 30s or 40s, but in ancient or medieval armies, we see men taking the field well into their 40s or 50s or even older. Were older men more physically fit at the time?	263
I'm a British creditor in 1783, the US just became independent, and much of my money is loaned out to Americans. Are they expected to still make payments and if not, would I have any legal recourse to get my money back?	231
People always talk about the Khazars as some proto-Israel bastion of medieval Judaism. How "Jewish" really were the Khazars?	227