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How accurate is Monty Python's 'Anarcho-Syndicalist Peasant' scene? Were small medieval villages de-facto self governing and autonomous from their noble lord and wider nation?

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Was there any resistance to allied occupation of Germany after Nazi defeat, and if not why not? NSFW

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At the time of German unification in 1871, were any of the German states republics?

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Why is history so obsessed with the nation-state? And why is school history almost always taught as the history of a particular state, in a particular period?

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Why did Trotsky (and many other Marxists) attach so much significance to the English civil war & glorious revolution?

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What was the defining moment in 19th - early 20th c. American expansionism that made it an 'Empire'?

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Why didn't Japan surrender after Hiroshima and were the atomic bombings the key factor in surrender?

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In 'Amadeus', Salieri states that every influential man in Venice was a Freemason. How historically important were Freemasons?

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What did Mussolini think about the Risorgimento? (Fascist interpretations of Italian unification)

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Recommended reading & activities for a quarantined University of Cambridge history offer holder?

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How accurate is Monty Python's 'Anarcho-Syndicalist Peasant' scene? Were small medieval villages de-facto self governing and autonomous from their noble lord and wider nation?	6524	AskHistorians
Was there any resistance to allied occupation of Germany after Nazi defeat, and if not why not? NSFW	68	AskHistorians
At the time of German unification in 1871, were any of the German states republics?	34	AskHistorians
Why is history so obsessed with the nation-state? And why is school history almost always taught as the history of a particular state, in a particular period?	10	AskHistorians
Why did Trotsky (and many other Marxists) attach so much significance to the English civil war & glorious revolution?	9	AskHistorians
What was the defining moment in 19th - early 20th c. American expansionism that made it an 'Empire'?	7	AskHistorians
Why didn't Japan surrender after Hiroshima and were the atomic bombings the key factor in surrender?	6	AskHistorians
In 'Amadeus', Salieri states that every influential man in Venice was a Freemason. How historically important were Freemasons?	6	AskHistorians
What did Mussolini think about the Risorgimento? (Fascist interpretations of Italian unification)	4	AskHistorians
Recommended reading & activities for a quarantined University of Cambridge history offer holder?	2	AskHistorians