/u/grapp's posts

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

I'm given to understand that part of the reason Rome conquered Britain was because Rome already had trade with the island and they wanted more economic control. If I'm a Roman trader traveling to Britain in 75BC how do I know I won't be robbed & killed as soon as I cross the channel?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

Why did you become a historian?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

60 years ago Was there more of a class devide between high up in the Labour Party and high up in the Conservative party, than there genrally is today?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

would it have been socially acceptable for an English colonial official in 1908 India, to marry a native women?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

There's an episode of radiolab about German POWs being put to work on American farms during WW2. At one point one of the male hosts asks if there were any known instances of American girls and German POWs falling in love, the reporter says "yes" but gives no details. Did any such instances occur?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

suppose you are a Japanese sailor trying to obtain employment on a merchant ship in 1945 to 1955. would having served in the imperial navy during WW2, be a help or a hindrance to your prospects?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

Today we tend to regard losing a child as one of the worst personal tragedies imaginable, whereas we tend to regard losing an elderly parent/grandparent as a sad but inevitable thing. Would somebody in Europe/America 300 years ago regard the two differently in terms of their relative awfulness?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

is it true that epicureanism philosophy underwent a significant upshot in popularity in the third century because its rejection of the affairs of the material world jived with the sense of hopelessness all the war and political intrigue in the Roman empire, was instilling in people?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

when the greeks and/or the Romans made bronze statues did they cast them all in one go in one large mould or did they made the body parts separately and stick them together after cooled?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

did all the people who lived in US at the time constitution was signed get to become citizens of the new country right away, or was it only the white people to start with?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
I'm given to understand that part of the reason Rome conquered Britain was because Rome already had trade with the island and they wanted more economic control. If I'm a Roman trader traveling to Britain in 75BC how do I know I won't be robbed & killed as soon as I cross the channel?	3	AskHistorians
Why did you become a historian?	3	AskHistorians
60 years ago Was there more of a class devide between high up in the Labour Party and high up in the Conservative party, than there genrally is today?	3	AskHistorians
would it have been socially acceptable for an English colonial official in 1908 India, to marry a native women?	3	AskHistorians
There's an episode of radiolab about German POWs being put to work on American farms during WW2. At one point one of the male hosts asks if there were any known instances of American girls and German POWs falling in love, the reporter says "yes" but gives no details. Did any such instances occur?	3	AskHistorians
suppose you are a Japanese sailor trying to obtain employment on a merchant ship in 1945 to 1955. would having served in the imperial navy during WW2, be a help or a hindrance to your prospects?	3	AskHistorians
Today we tend to regard losing a child as one of the worst personal tragedies imaginable, whereas we tend to regard losing an elderly parent/grandparent as a sad but inevitable thing. Would somebody in Europe/America 300 years ago regard the two differently in terms of their relative awfulness?	3	AskHistorians
is it true that epicureanism philosophy underwent a significant upshot in popularity in the third century because its rejection of the affairs of the material world jived with the sense of hopelessness all the war and political intrigue in the Roman empire, was instilling in people?	3	AskHistorians
when the greeks and/or the Romans made bronze statues did they cast them all in one go in one large mould or did they made the body parts separately and stick them together after cooled?	3	AskHistorians
did all the people who lived in US at the time constitution was signed get to become citizens of the new country right away, or was it only the white people to start with?	3	AskHistorians