/u/lgmdnss's posts in /r/askhistorians
Would a "legendary" general like Alexander The Great with his army of phalanxes and what not be able to beat a plain average Napoleonic Era general with their armies?
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I'm a peasant around the year 1000 in northern current-day England. My village is about to get raided by the Danes or Norwegians. Me and my people offer them a place to stay the (coming) night(s) and give them food and are as hospitable as possible. What happens? NSFW
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How did Bernard Fokke have so many fast yet consistent trips? Was there anything about his ship, crew or himself that made it better? Some even say he would be the captain of the flying dutchman and other supernatural stuff, but what's the history & facts behind all this?
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Finally. After being a squire for a good while, I'm being knighted. Wait - why the hell did my lord (or person who's knighting me) give me a bitch slap during the ceremony? Shouldn't I just get a tap on the shoulders with a sword and some Latin chanting and a few oaths here and there? Why slap me?
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I walk into a completely average medieval village in modern clothes and I'm holding a smartphone. Is there a realistic chance of me being chased out of the village with pitchforks, or is the "xenophobic peasant" trope a misconception?
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What prevented a literate "sociopath" in medieval times from conning his way into court by impersonating, or even cause war between two "countries" aside from a seal that could be forged quite easily since the printing press wasn't yet invented to make real, identical copies of documents?
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I'm a pleb with almost nothing. But I have dreams. I want to become rich, retire early and live out my life in the most hedonistic ways possible without any responsibility at all. How would I become such a 'self made millionaire' in ancient Rome? Trade?Shady deals? Do I need to become a patrician?
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Alexander the Great has been said to have died from malaria. Why didn't his entire army get infected by mosquitoes carrying it, and why does it seem like the disease is only a recent thing rather than a disease thousands of years old? Do people just catch it more frequently now VS then?
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I have read somewhere that WWII has technically seen not ended yet, due to Japan and Russia not having signed peace treaties. Have there been any tensions because of this? How is it effecting the world today?
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