/u/[deleted]'s posts in /r/AskHistorians

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

Did Native Americans who lived on the East Coast have any information about tribes who lived on the West Coast and vice versa? Did they have any idea how big North America was back then?

1096 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Why did Europeans stop using names from their own language and begin using Hebrew and Greek Christian names?

1094 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

How did France, Britain, and the United States respond to the rise of the German Socialist Party and attempted communist revolution in 1918/19?

1090 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

How did karate change when it was popularized in the United States? Is there a distinctively American style?

1086 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

A historian told me that it's considered very likely that a huge amount of jewish history was simply made up some centuries BC by the ruling elite of the region to create a common identity for the people living there. Is that true?

1084 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Did people buy apartments and condos in ancient Rome? What were housing laws like?

1079 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

When French President Charles de Gaulle withdrew from NATO and ordered the withdrawal of all foreign troops, he was famously asked by the US Secretary of State whether that "included the bodies of American soldiers in France's cemeteries." Is there any documentation for de Gaulle's response?

1072 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

[deleted by user]

1059 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Horseback archery is insanely difficult and was rare in the west - yet Turks, Magyars, and Eastern armies seemed to have built their armies around it. How?

1045 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

What family is the oldest "old money"?

1037 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did Native Americans who lived on the East Coast have any information about tribes who lived on the West Coast and vice versa? Did they have any idea how big North America was back then?	1096
Why did Europeans stop using names from their own language and begin using Hebrew and Greek Christian names?	1094
How did France, Britain, and the United States respond to the rise of the German Socialist Party and attempted communist revolution in 1918/19?	1090
How did karate change when it was popularized in the United States? Is there a distinctively American style?	1086
A historian told me that it's considered very likely that a huge amount of jewish history was simply made up some centuries BC by the ruling elite of the region to create a common identity for the people living there. Is that true?	1084
Did people buy apartments and condos in ancient Rome? What were housing laws like?	1079
When French President Charles de Gaulle withdrew from NATO and ordered the withdrawal of all foreign troops, he was famously asked by the US Secretary of State whether that "included the bodies of American soldiers in France's cemeteries." Is there any documentation for de Gaulle's response?	1072
[deleted by user]	1059
Horseback archery is insanely difficult and was rare in the west - yet Turks, Magyars, and Eastern armies seemed to have built their armies around it. How?	1045
What family is the oldest "old money"?	1037