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Did Germanic kings like Pepin the Short expect their male ancestors to divide the kingdom up among their siblings generation after generation until they all controlled areas the size of parking lots?

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How plausible is the theory that Snorri re-wrote Loki into a Lucifer-like enemy of the gods in order to keep the Norse stories alive in a Christian culture, but Loki was more of a positive trickster in the original mythology?

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I heard many of Britain's moors are forest-cleared remnants of Iron Age farmland. Why didn't all this land become cultivated again in the Middle Ages, and what made this widespread Iron Age cultivation of Britain stop in the first place?

239 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How did the British of ~1000 AD view the inhabitants of Britain from ~0 AD? To what extent did they identify with them?

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Are there any known Greek critics of pederasty from the Hellenistic period?

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Did the Aztec have any conception of the peoples in central or northern America today? If so, what did they think about them?

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How credible is Strabo's account of the Vaccaei's communal agriculture? This Iberian tribe allegedly redistributed all crops. If accurate, what kept it from failing like some other forms of modern State-instituted communal agriculture?

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Did the Antiquity Norse see themselves as superior to non-Scandinavian Germanic tribes like the Saxons, [proto-]Goths and Suebi, much as the Greeks or Romans viewed "barbarians"? Or did they view them like a Greek would a Greek of another city-state?

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Did the conception of Midgard in Norse Mythology include distant lands, such as hot deserts, populated by ethnicties very different from that of the Germanic people?

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How were cities in Western Europe organized, in terms of "districts," service layouts or terraces, from their formation in the early Middle Ages to about 1500 AD?

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Did Germanic kings like Pepin the Short expect their male ancestors to divide the kingdom up among their siblings generation after generation until they all controlled areas the size of parking lots?	458	AskHistorians
How plausible is the theory that Snorri re-wrote Loki into a Lucifer-like enemy of the gods in order to keep the Norse stories alive in a Christian culture, but Loki was more of a positive trickster in the original mythology?	270	AskHistorians
I heard many of Britain's moors are forest-cleared remnants of Iron Age farmland. Why didn't all this land become cultivated again in the Middle Ages, and what made this widespread Iron Age cultivation of Britain stop in the first place?	239	AskHistorians
How did the British of ~1000 AD view the inhabitants of Britain from ~0 AD? To what extent did they identify with them?	137	AskHistorians
Are there any known Greek critics of pederasty from the Hellenistic period?	126	AskHistorians
Did the Aztec have any conception of the peoples in central or northern America today? If so, what did they think about them?	125	AskHistorians
How credible is Strabo's account of the Vaccaei's communal agriculture? This Iberian tribe allegedly redistributed all crops. If accurate, what kept it from failing like some other forms of modern State-instituted communal agriculture?	76	AskHistorians
Did the Antiquity Norse see themselves as superior to non-Scandinavian Germanic tribes like the Saxons, [proto-]Goths and Suebi, much as the Greeks or Romans viewed "barbarians"? Or did they view them like a Greek would a Greek of another city-state?	59	AskHistorians
Did the conception of Midgard in Norse Mythology include distant lands, such as hot deserts, populated by ethnicties very different from that of the Germanic people?	53	AskHistorians
How were cities in Western Europe organized, in terms of "districts," service layouts or terraces, from their formation in the early Middle Ages to about 1500 AD?	34	AskHistorians