/u/lost118's posts in /r/askhistorians
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Ive noticed a LOT of public parks in Britain are from the Victorian era, why were the Victorians so crazy for pubic spaces?
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If the English longbow was so feared by the other great european powers, why didn't they use longbows also?
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If I took a farmer from 1066 and placed him in 1800 would he recognise the farming techniques being used?
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When armies used to march hundreds of miles, would they have marched in silence or would the soldiers have talked to each other?
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We all hear about the bad sides of Imperialism, did the imperial empires ever do any good for the countries they colonised?
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Why did the Europeans (and north Americans) use African slave labour and not slaves from other parts of the world?
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