/u/acehighstr8's posts in /r/askhistorians
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After the 38th parallel was drawn to divide Korea, how did North Korea become so messed up politically compared to South Korea? How much did Soviet influence contribute to North Korea's political development, and how much of it was internal pressure?
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Agriculture popped up about 10,000 years ago, but was it "discovered" or "invented" by humans? What does r/AskHistorians think about this?
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I heard in a PBS documentary that Napoleon's policies set the framework for what would become modern France. How specifically did he help build this framework? And to what extent did Napoleon pick up on the shortcomings of the French Revolution to spur the country into its 'modernity'?
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