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In Greek mythology, did the titans and primordial deities have any religious basis in the real world? Did people worship Titans before the Olympian gods, then the Olympians overthrew them in battle but also in popular culture?

2033 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why is it that the English and French people who were terrorized by the vikings were never able to take the fight to Scandinavia?

239 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How is it that Marijuana is considered forbidden in Islam, yet smoking hashish was such a big part of Ottoman and Turkish culture?

214 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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When interracial marriages were illegal in some states in the U.S., what did biracial people do? Could they simply not marry anyone in those states?

143 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Was the "Southern Strategy" during the U.S. civil rights movement a real thing or a myth?

69 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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I just saw an episode of the twilight zone with a WW2 vet character who said they were told when fighting in the Pacific that Japanese people were a type of ape and not humans, is this true?

24 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] Honoria was the Western Roman Emperor's daughter who was being forced into a marriage. She wrote to Atilla the Hun to come save her. Attila demanded her as his wife and half the western empire as his dowry. He was refused and war began. Nothing is written of her after. Finish her story

19 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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Norse people settled in Greenland and Canada centuries before Columbus. How was the knowledge of these lands lost to the people of Europe by Columbus' time?

17 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] Asteroid mining has become very prevalent. With all those dense metal materials being imported onto Earth from space, Earth's gravity has started to increase. This increase in gravity and asteroid mining in general has become a controversial environmental, political, and economic concern.

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Why did Alexander the Great not conquer Sparta?

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In Greek mythology, did the titans and primordial deities have any religious basis in the real world? Did people worship Titans before the Olympian gods, then the Olympians overthrew them in battle but also in popular culture?	2033	AskHistorians
Why is it that the English and French people who were terrorized by the vikings were never able to take the fight to Scandinavia?	239	AskHistorians
How is it that Marijuana is considered forbidden in Islam, yet smoking hashish was such a big part of Ottoman and Turkish culture?	214	AskHistorians
When interracial marriages were illegal in some states in the U.S., what did biracial people do? Could they simply not marry anyone in those states?	143	AskHistorians
Was the "Southern Strategy" during the U.S. civil rights movement a real thing or a myth?	69	AskHistorians
I just saw an episode of the twilight zone with a WW2 vet character who said they were told when fighting in the Pacific that Japanese people were a type of ape and not humans, is this true?	24	AskHistorians
[WP] Honoria was the Western Roman Emperor's daughter who was being forced into a marriage. She wrote to Atilla the Hun to come save her. Attila demanded her as his wife and half the western empire as his dowry. He was refused and war began. Nothing is written of her after. Finish her story	19	WritingPrompts
Norse people settled in Greenland and Canada centuries before Columbus. How was the knowledge of these lands lost to the people of Europe by Columbus' time?	17	AskHistorians
[WP] Asteroid mining has become very prevalent. With all those dense metal materials being imported onto Earth from space, Earth's gravity has started to increase. This increase in gravity and asteroid mining in general has become a controversial environmental, political, and economic concern.	13	WritingPrompts
Why did Alexander the Great not conquer Sparta?	8	AskHistorians