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

2406 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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

339 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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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?

136 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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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."

135 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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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?

135 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Was the "Bronze Age Collapse" inevitable?

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If a woolly mammoth or at least something very much akin to a woolly mammoth were "resurrected" or otherwise created where would it's "natural" range be on today's Earth? Also, what plants would/could it eat there?

91 upvotes • r/askscience

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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?

77 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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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?

72 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why is the Black Sea coast of Turkey so conspicuously missing from so many nearby empires throughout history?	2406	AskHistorians
Does the Sunni-Shiah divide in modern-day Iraq correspond to a prior ethnic or cultural divide in Mesopotamia?	339	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Why wasn't there a big, fat "gunpowder empire" dominating early modern Europe à la the Ottoman, Mughal and Qing empires of Asia?	135	AskHistorians
Was the "Bronze Age Collapse" inevitable?	99	AskHistorians
If a woolly mammoth or at least something very much akin to a woolly mammoth were "resurrected" or otherwise created where would it's "natural" range be on today's Earth? Also, what plants would/could it eat there?	91	askscience
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	AskHistorians
Were the Sami the indigenous inhabitants of all Europe or just Scandinavia?	73	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians