/u/screwyoushadowban's posts
How did truth, certainty, and lying work in the ancient Roman mind? If two citizens gave contradictory testimony in court, would the Romans assume one was lying and one wasn't? Or was the idea that one or both were mistaken equally plausible?
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Did Europeans in Mid Antiquity>Earliest Middle Ages believe their arms, armor, and tools to be fundamentally superior to those of the Heroic/Bronze Ages/early Classical period the way DnD/Civilization/RPG-influenced moderns do?
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What does a young upper class woman in the west of continental Europe during the High Middle Ages need to do, in her opinion, to live a "fulfilling"/"good" life?
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Was "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by Sousa actually used as an "emergency song" (aka "The Disaster March") in circus and theatre?
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What happened to all the newly minted Greeks who didn't speak Greek and the new Turks who didn't speak Turkish after the population exchanges?
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The field of anthropology in the US is extremely hostile to collaboration w/ state entities in certain contexts: military/some foreign policy/etc. Do there exist official or unofficial ethical guidance regarding collaboration of historians w/ the state (or corporations) especially in these contexts?
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How many revolutions actually started in coffee houses? Were Early Modern institutional fears about "subversive" coffee house culture based on an actual link to, say, socially subversive salon culture or merely a perceived link?
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What was the "racial" hierarchy like in the Ottoman Empire before the wide influence of Western ideas in the 19th century? All are supposed to be equal in Islam, but did the Ottomans behave that way re: their black, Roma, etc. subjects?
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How did the depiction of religion on film, stage, & television change after the rapid growth of Christianity in South Korea from the mid 20th century onward?
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