/u/screwyoushadowban's posts
Did Romans in the first centuries BCE and CE think that Rome would last forever (or at least as long as humanity existed)? Was there pre-Christian Roman eschatological belief?
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Why does Fort Sumpter loom so large in American popular memory as the start of the Civil War? The South had already been attacking & seizing Federal forts & other properties for months by then.
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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.?
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Early Medieval Scandinavia had extensive economic contact with areas in what is now Russia as well migration to (and return from) the Eastern Roman Empire. How influential was Orthodox Christianity at that time in what would eventually become Catholic Scandinavia?
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Were there any special intelligence/spying shenanigans happening in the latter half Yugoslavia's history given its self-appointed role as independent crossroads between East and West and its tourism industry serving both blocs?
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Firefighters have existed for thousands of years but what about fire stations? If not when and where do structures resembling our modern fire stations appear?
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Accountants and lawyers give advice but doctors give orders. How did physicians (and medical researchers), especially in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, get imbued with so much authority over their patients/subjects, who seemed to have almost zero choice in their own care?
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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?
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How important was the Nation of Islam and its unique understanding of Islam and history to the shaping of Americans' perception of Muslims in the late 1950s to 60s? If a white American in 1960 for example heard the term "Muslim" how likely is it they would imagine an NOI member?
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