/u/manicdouchebag's posts in /r/AskHistorians
"Tokyo from 1985 to 1991 saw what some believe was the greatest concentration of wealth in the history of the world," according to the prologue of journalist Karl Taro Greenfield's book 1994 Speed Tribes. What (if any) basis does this have in measurable historical fact?
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What were the effects of the Mongol conquests on geographical and international awareness, government administration and public policy, and international trade?
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What effects did the Mongol conquests have on public geographical and international awareness, government administration and public policy, and international trade in the regions they conquered (or their neighbors)?
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How were the official translations of Japanese administrative regions determined, and who decided them?
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With surviving texts written in dead languages, how do we know whether the writing accurately reflects the correct grammar and other language conventions of the time? How do we know whether the examples we have are "good" writing, or broken and clumsy and full of errors?
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