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Why does France speak a language of Romantic origin, rather than of Germanic origin? Weren't the Franks Germanic?
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If 'Ancient Greece' was a very long period over a large geographic area, why does it seem like everything I heard about it in highschool and university come from like one generation of people in just Athens and Sparta?
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What are the larger questions being asked in the historical community? Ex: “We once trusted German Gen accounts of WW2 now we are not so sure”
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Is the existential dread with regards to work, a modern post industrialisation symptom, or people in the earlier ages also suffered from it, and wrote about it?
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How come innovations and philosophical discoveries kinda happened at the same time in Europe, Middle East and Asia?
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Heard “Rural Purge” and thought it was part of the Holodomor, but it’s US networks canceling Green Acres & Beverly Hillbillies in the 60s/70s in favor of more contemporary fare like Mary Tyler Moore & All in the Family. Any other events that sound similarly ominous but aren’t?
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