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It is commonly cited that in the US military a large percent of the personnel are in non-combat logistics and support roles. In ancient and medieval armies how many of the soldiers would be in logistics and support roles as opposed to combat roles.d
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What do Aztec and Mayan houses and commercial buildings look like? We always hear of their large cities, why do we only see pyramids?
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How much (or how little) did Japanese change over the centuries? Will a modern Japanese speaker be able to speak intelligibly with say Oda Nobunaga in the 1500s?
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Considering that Japan was an ally of Nazi Germany, how did Adolf Hitler view Japanese culture and people?
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How historically accurate was the notion that the Mongol invasion of Europe was primarily stopped by the death of Ogedei Khan?
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Wikipedia states that there there were thousands of Black Africans in Portugal in the 15th century and the population of Medieval Lisbon then was 10% Black. What happened to them thereafter, and do their descendants still live in Portugal today?
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The Ming Dynasty is said to have fielded hundreds of thousands of soldiers compared to Medieval Europe in which tens of thousands was the norm. Is the disparity due to China having more population, or better administration, logistics or centralization?
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A Wikipedia article tells of a mission given by Tokugawa Ieyasu to a Spanish explorer to find "gold and silver islands" to the east of Japan. Can people tell us more about that?
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