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If the Byzantine Empire had lost everything except Constantinople to the Ottomans, why was it such a shock when it fell in 1453?

2335 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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I am a middle aged worker in the United States during World War II. How is my work life balance? Am I working tons of overtime? Do I get paid extra for overtime? Do I complain at the water cooler about how hard we are working?

232 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] In the future, it becomes cheap enough for the rich to regularly take rockets into Earth orbit. However, the first commercially successful venture is a brothel space station where the rich go to avoid Earth's prostitution laws

4 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] This world is in a simulation created by future humans in order to study history. In thousands of simulations, this is the only one where white people have been remotely successful.

3 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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How were presidential electors selected early on in American history?

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Why did the enlightenment lead to different forms of government and societal organization from what had existed before instead of reaffirming the existing power structure based on Reason? Was it the ideas themselves that lead to change or the historical circumstances around the ideas?

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Does pi contain every possible combination of five numbers since it is infinitely long?

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If the Byzantine Empire had lost everything except Constantinople to the Ottomans, why was it such a shock when it fell in 1453?	2335	AskHistorians
I am a middle aged worker in the United States during World War II. How is my work life balance? Am I working tons of overtime? Do I get paid extra for overtime? Do I complain at the water cooler about how hard we are working?	232	AskHistorians
[WP] In the future, it becomes cheap enough for the rich to regularly take rockets into Earth orbit. However, the first commercially successful venture is a brothel space station where the rich go to avoid Earth's prostitution laws	4	WritingPrompts
[WP] This world is in a simulation created by future humans in order to study history. In thousands of simulations, this is the only one where white people have been remotely successful.	3	WritingPrompts
How were presidential electors selected early on in American history?	3	AskHistorians
Why did the enlightenment lead to different forms of government and societal organization from what had existed before instead of reaffirming the existing power structure based on Reason? Was it the ideas themselves that lead to change or the historical circumstances around the ideas?	1	AskHistorians
Does pi contain every possible combination of five numbers since it is infinitely long?	1	askscience