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In the United States in the period between 1911 & 1915, approximately 70% of mothers breastfed their infants. In 1946-50 this had dropped to ~25%. What led to the decline, and how did public conversations about breastfeeding change in that period?	62	AskHistorians
What was the Qing (& various neighboring countries who had been deeply influenced by Chinese diplomatic thought) notion of "sovereignty" in the 18th-19th centuries, how did it differ from European ideas of it, and how did it change when confronted with European occupation?	62	AskHistorians
Where did France's Japanophilia's come from? Was all of Europe as interested in Japanese media at some point and then everyone else's tastes changed, or is the story of contemporary French Japonisme unique?	61	AskHistorians
How accessible was the roman legal/judicial system to poor citizens? What about non-citizens? Was relief against a legal wrong possible in practice? Especially in the early Imperial period. Also, wildcard, the Icelandic Commonwealth?	61	AskHistorians
Various news articles from the 1970s I've seen assert that Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was a creation of the Korean CIA. Where did the US congressional committee that made this claim get their evidence & how did S. Korea's neighbors (esp. Japan) react?	59	AskHistorians
If we could send 19th century ship architects to 1000 CE could they still build something like a fast, sophisticated clipper ship? What intermediate incremental knowledge or tech (metallurgy?) would be missing?	58	AskHistorians
Did the ancient Romans swear upon their testicles when making oaths?	58	AskHistorians
How did Persian literature come to be so widely read among Muslim elites after the Arab Conquests reached Iran? The same didn't seem to happen for Greek or Latin literature when the Arab Conquests reached Roman and former Roman lands.	54	AskHistorians
How far did wood travel in late Antiquity & the Middle Ages? Was it all very local? My house in the Western U.S. (& much of the stuff in it) includes wood from Brazil, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, etc.	54	AskHistorians
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.?	53	AskHistorians

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