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Why is the Black Sea coast of Turkey so conspicuously missing from so many nearby empires throughout history?

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Does the Sunni-Shiah divide in modern-day Iraq correspond to a prior ethnic or cultural divide in Mesopotamia?

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Is our understanding of pre-modern history biased against cultures and civilizations located in regions that aren't conducive to stone-working or have a climate that fails to preserve written records or other relics?

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Why wasn't there a big, fat "gunpowder empire" dominating early modern Europe à la the Ottoman, Mughal and Qing empires of Asia?

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How much truth is there to Hessian officer Johann Heinrich's 1778 statement: "Call it not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or less than an Irish Scotch (Scotch-Irish) Presbyterian rebellion."

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Was the "Bronze Age Collapse" inevitable?

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The Black Sea grain trade factors heavily in the history of classical Greece. How were the societies along the Black Sea which produced and exported this grain organized politically during this time period? Also, what languages would they have spoken?

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Were the Sami the indigenous inhabitants of all Europe or just Scandinavia?

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Why were the later arriving Na-Dene (Athabaskan) peoples of North America able to displace the earlier arriving native Americans? As later arrivals from the Old World did they have technological or cultural advantages?

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Why is upstate Maine so thinly populated despite being almost surrounded by densely populated areas?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is the Black Sea coast of Turkey so conspicuously missing from so many nearby empires throughout history?	2406
Does the Sunni-Shiah divide in modern-day Iraq correspond to a prior ethnic or cultural divide in Mesopotamia?	339
Is our understanding of pre-modern history biased against cultures and civilizations located in regions that aren't conducive to stone-working or have a climate that fails to preserve written records or other relics?	136
Why wasn't there a big, fat "gunpowder empire" dominating early modern Europe à la the Ottoman, Mughal and Qing empires of Asia?	135
How much truth is there to Hessian officer Johann Heinrich's 1778 statement: "Call it not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or less than an Irish Scotch (Scotch-Irish) Presbyterian rebellion."	135
Was the "Bronze Age Collapse" inevitable?	99
The Black Sea grain trade factors heavily in the history of classical Greece. How were the societies along the Black Sea which produced and exported this grain organized politically during this time period? Also, what languages would they have spoken?	77
Were the Sami the indigenous inhabitants of all Europe or just Scandinavia?	73
Why were the later arriving Na-Dene (Athabaskan) peoples of North America able to displace the earlier arriving native Americans? As later arrivals from the Old World did they have technological or cultural advantages?	72
Why is upstate Maine so thinly populated despite being almost surrounded by densely populated areas?	68