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Nov 9 |
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Are the Ramayana and Mahabharatha exaggerated stories or pure fiction? @DVK - Troy was found, Achilles and Ajax were not. |
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Nov 5 |
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What is the purpose of the bridge to the Russkiy island? deleted 5 characters in body |
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Nov 5 |
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Why did Austronesian/Polynesian people not colonize Australia? @astabada - Yeah, that side of it is proving trickier. I can really only speculate: 1) The trade winds were very strongly against them (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_prevailing_winds_on_earth.png ), 2) The Maritime SE Asian cultures really only interacted with others from the same culture group, unless for trade and 3) Australians and New Guineans of the time had neither spices nor mineral or metal goods, so trade missions (and perhaps colonies) were considered futile. |
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Nov 5 |
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If modern human existed for hundreds of thousands years why was writing invented only some 7000-9000 years ago? Your information on the origin of writing is outdated and incorrect. The discovery of the Dispilio Tablet is a pretty clear indication that the Vinča signs were actually true writing, and not protowriting. Similarly, it's becoming clear that Chinese writing also developed much earlier, deriving from Jiahu symbols. (The Mesopotamians used baked clay in a dry climate rather than animal skins or soft bark, so they were easier to discover... Europe and China each beat them to the punch by a few thousand years.) |
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Nov 1 |
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When people use spears to fight cavalry do infantry stab the horse or the rider? @JimThio - The spears are braced into the ground, but held and maneuvered. They were deployed in ranks, thinking that archery, cavalry and terrain could hold the flanks. This didn't always work. The Swiss Pikemen, mercenary light infantry outfits, figured out how to deploy in a mobile square formation, the hedgehog, that could instantly redeploy to adress any flanking threat. They pretty much ruled the battlefield for a century, before musketry and artillery made them obsolete. |
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Oct 29 |
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Why did Austronesian/Polynesian people not colonize Australia? Umm. The Mesoamericans and Classical Indians were in tropical climates, and had noooo problems initiating wars of conquest. Oral tradition is usually captured in an ethnography these days - please reference one to back up your assertions. |
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Oct 29 |
answered | Why did Austronesian/Polynesian people not colonize Australia? |
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Oct 25 |
answered | Was the US Navy larger in 1917, and if so, why? |
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Oct 24 |
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US: Who turned the (originally) “anti-slavery” GOP into the “pro-business” party? This answer is only half complete - the other half would be how alienated social conservatives from the Democratic Party ("Dixiecrats") found a new home with Goldwater and Nixon's "Southern Strategy," and how this was accelerated with LBJ's agressive pursuit of Civil Rights. |
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Oct 19 |
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What is the purpose of the bridge to the Russkiy island? added 58 characters in body |
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Oct 19 |
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What is the purpose of the bridge to the Russkiy island? @Anixx - Good point, tho Medvedev's independence is somewhat in question. I'll change the answer to reflect your input. |
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Oct 19 |
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What is the purpose of the bridge to the Russkiy island? Possible political and economic reasons for the construction of a historically significant structure definitely falls into our bailiwick. |
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Oct 19 |
answered | What is the purpose of the bridge to the Russkiy island? |
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Oct 16 |
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What language was the Charter of Liberties written in? @YannisRizos - Try this link: books.google.com/… |
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Oct 16 |
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What language was the Charter of Liberties written in? References added |
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Oct 16 |
answered | What language was the Charter of Liberties written in? |
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Oct 15 |
answered | In medieval India, was there a distinction between the army and the police? |
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Oct 12 |
answered | What was the main food source in old California? |
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Sep 27 |
answered | How did people acquire things in the pre-Roman Celtic world? |
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Sep 21 |
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What was the origin of religious tolerance in Europe? Roger Williams, who was an Anglican theologian who believed in the separation of Church and State, John Clarke, a Baptist minister from a time when Baptists were persecuted, who sought freedom to worship as he chose, and Charles II, the Catholic King of England who was in a very precarious position after the Restoration, outnumbered by the Anglicans and outgunned by the Dissenters, neither of whom liked Catholics. An experiment in complete freedom of religion - The Rhode Island Charter - appealed to all three men. |
