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What are the origins of playing cards?

584 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What did Soviet textbooks say about the United States? Nazi German textbooks?

179 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How did Islamic armies take the walled cities of the Eastern Roman Empire in the seventh century?

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Why did the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) economy collapse during the reign of Andronikos II?

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How did the Soviet Union absorb such large manpower losses during the Second World War?

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Was the Komnenian Restoration a phantom recovery?

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How did medieval cartographers know where borders were in any kingdom?

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Why did the dynatoi families gradually gain control of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries? Why were these families not more visible in the time of Emperor Justinian or Constantine V?

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Why are Jews such a popular scapegoat relative to the size of their population?

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Why did the Burgundians defect to the French side in the Hundred Years' War?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What are the origins of playing cards?	584	AskHistorians
What did Soviet textbooks say about the United States? Nazi German textbooks?	179	AskHistorians
How did Islamic armies take the walled cities of the Eastern Roman Empire in the seventh century?	27	AskHistorians
Why did the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) economy collapse during the reign of Andronikos II?	23	AskHistorians
How did the Soviet Union absorb such large manpower losses during the Second World War?	9	AskHistorians
Was the Komnenian Restoration a phantom recovery?	7	AskHistorians
How did medieval cartographers know where borders were in any kingdom?	5	AskHistorians
Why did the dynatoi families gradually gain control of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries? Why were these families not more visible in the time of Emperor Justinian or Constantine V?	3	AskHistorians
Why are Jews such a popular scapegoat relative to the size of their population?	3	AskHistorians
Why did the Burgundians defect to the French side in the Hundred Years' War?	2	AskHistorians