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What is Romania's connection to the Romans?	26
" A small splinter group of the Muslim army crossed the Pyrenees and was defeated by Charles Martel near Tours in 732, a minor incident in this whole story and, in no way, the turning point in European history as it has sometimes been portrayed"	21
I've read in two separate books now, the current one being A Brief History of the Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward, that at least Edward III and Henry V used Greek Fire in battles, what's the history of Greek Fire in England?	17
I am watching a doc about the +UTHBER+T swords being Damascus steel and crucible influenced. Does this theory hold any water?	14
Can someone tell me a little something about "Abu'l Misk Kafur, a black ex-slave, a eunuch of fabled ugliness, who had ruled Egypt with skill and vision for 22 years(946-68)"?	11
I'm reading John Williams' Life of Julius Caesar and he says " It is a real loss... ...that neither the Ciceronian "Cato," nor the Caesarean "Anticato," have come down to our times" Is this still true, or have we found anything in the 160 odd years since that was written?.	11
Is the eagle imagery associated with the United States related or influenced in any way by the Roman, Byzantine, or Austrian eagle? Or any other association I'm forgetting?	10
Hi historians, what would be a good book on Eleanor of Aquitaine?	9
Can this sub recommend a good, factual, readable book on Zheng He and Chinese sailing ships and exploration, and the circumstances around the abandonment of them?	8
How did the client system work in the Late Republic? Would they really be there to greet them every morning, and did they daily (or at least regularly) request money? Did they go with them everywhere while in public? What was a day like in the life of Senator Gaius Caeser and his reported horde?	8

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