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How did pre Columbian Great Lakes Native Americans deal with law and order? What sort of judicial system did they have?

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Is there a good work which describes the gradual depiction of 'barbarism'? From my studies it's clear the definition shifted wildly between Ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and early-modern colonialists to even the 19th and 20th centuries.

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[WP] Write a horror story that doesn't seem like a horror story until the last sentence.

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[EU] Kreia (KOTOR 2) has a debate with Yoda about the force

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[WP] "Hide."

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How many men, women, and children were needed to start a colony in North America? What supplies were necessary for the voyage and starting up? Were there any distinctive differences between "colonization strategies" of the British, French, Dutch, and other?

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Does knighthood harken back to any Roman tradition or was it a purely Medieval concept? Why/when did the term become associated with highly armored, trained, mounted soldiers?

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When did the Assyrian identity disappear? Babylonian?

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How would the fields and tools of a 'peasant' farmer in Western Europe contrast from the beginning of the Early-Medieval Era and the end of the Early-Modern Era? (~500 - 1700's, lets say)

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Is dyed hair a modern phenomena? If not, how far back in history have cultures practiced it?

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How did pre Columbian Great Lakes Native Americans deal with law and order? What sort of judicial system did they have?	51	AskHistorians
Is there a good work which describes the gradual depiction of 'barbarism'? From my studies it's clear the definition shifted wildly between Ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and early-modern colonialists to even the 19th and 20th centuries.	48	AskHistorians
[WP] Write a horror story that doesn't seem like a horror story until the last sentence.	47	WritingPrompts
[EU] Kreia (KOTOR 2) has a debate with Yoda about the force	46	WritingPrompts
[WP] "Hide."	43	WritingPrompts
How many men, women, and children were needed to start a colony in North America? What supplies were necessary for the voyage and starting up? Were there any distinctive differences between "colonization strategies" of the British, French, Dutch, and other?	37	AskHistorians
Does knighthood harken back to any Roman tradition or was it a purely Medieval concept? Why/when did the term become associated with highly armored, trained, mounted soldiers?	37	AskHistorians
When did the Assyrian identity disappear? Babylonian?	33	AskHistorians
How would the fields and tools of a 'peasant' farmer in Western Europe contrast from the beginning of the Early-Medieval Era and the end of the Early-Modern Era? (~500 - 1700's, lets say)	28	AskHistorians
Is dyed hair a modern phenomena? If not, how far back in history have cultures practiced it?	28	AskHistorians