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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
What do we know about Indo-Greek & Greco-Bactrian religious beliefs? Does the mixed Greek & indigenous symbols in coinage & art from these regions point to religious syncretism or simply Greek religion existing in parallel with Hinduism/Buddhism/etc.?	31	AskHistorians
Why did the 20th century U.S. largely back (politically diverse) liberal democratic movements and governments in Europe while backing (largely right-wing) dictatorships and illiberal democracies elsewhere?	31	AskHistorians
When did the idea of the "gypsy curse" develop? Is it purely a literary device or did it originate from actual folk belief? Was malign magic attributed to any other marginalized groups in Europe (e.g. Cagots, Jews, Travelers, etc.) or just Roma communities?	31	AskHistorians
What did "being a good husband" mean to the Romans? Was "being a good husband" synonymous with "being a good man" (virtus) or were they separate things? And do records of Roman women's opinions on the topic survive, or just the those of the husbands themselves?	31	AskHistorians
I've noticed lots of medieval and early modern painters depicted antiquity looking almost exactly the same as they depicted their own times. Did ancient audiences think these depictions were accurate?	30	AskHistorians
What were Medieval Christian and Muslim rulers' and intellectuals' perceptions of/ideas about Samaritanism? Outside the Levant, did they know that the Samaritan community still existed and had a distinct culture? Did states treat or acknowledge Samaritans differently from (Rabbinic) Jewish people?	29	AskHistorians
Were deities immanent in early Greek religion? For example, was Helios god of the sun or was he the sun you saw in the sky every day? Was Chronos god of time, or was he time, and thus a constant part of lived experience?	29	AskHistorians
How did the United Farm Workers go from a multi-ethnic social/labor organization to an outwardly Chicano/Mexican/Mexican-American organization that, at least in the American Southwest middle school education I got, is remembered almost solely for racial justice/civil rights?	28	AskHistorians
Do we know how animals with ridiculously long necks and relatively compact bodies like Tanystropheus and the Plesiosaurians avoid the snorkel problem? Were their bodies just 80% lung?	28	askscience
I heard a claim that the practice of using watermills for manufacturing, having been "lost" during the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire, was "rediscovered" during the late middle ages, & that the mechanical hydropower they produced helped enable the Renaissance. Any substance to that at all?	27	AskHistorians

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