User fdb

95 votes

Was hay invented only in the Middle Ages in Europe?

answered Aug 29, 2016 at 0:34

48 votes

How serious was Fermat's statement about the ancients?

answered Jun 6, 2019 at 11:42

43 votes

Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?

answered Aug 26, 2021 at 16:19

28 votes

Were Medieval Britons aware of the existence of the Roman Empire?

answered Nov 7, 2014 at 11:09

25 votes

Accepted

When did the Greeks stop calling themselves "Roman"?

answered Nov 23, 2014 at 1:12

23 votes

What language did Brahe talk with Kepler?

answered Nov 10, 2021 at 16:35

21 votes

Accepted

How come every culture on the planet has a different calendar, yet follow the same system for a week?

answered Nov 3, 2014 at 10:40

19 votes

Earliest evidence of objects intended for future archaeologists?

answered Aug 17, 2019 at 22:52

18 votes

Did Diderot say "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"?

answered Jan 25, 2016 at 23:57

17 votes

Was Roosevelt the "biggest slave trader in recorded history"?

answered Oct 20, 2016 at 13:56

17 votes

Origin of the idea of a series of books

answered Jul 2, 2015 at 19:54

17 votes

Accepted

What happened to those ethnic Greeks who converted to Islam during the Ottoman empire?

answered Jan 21, 2015 at 16:40

15 votes

Does the Ottoman Empire count as a colonial power?

answered Aug 13, 2017 at 13:25

15 votes

Accepted

Did Germany's role in WW2 affect the historical perception of its role in WW1?

answered Aug 22, 2017 at 9:35

13 votes

Did Egyptians circumnavigate Africa in three years during Nekau's reign?

answered Dec 30, 2017 at 12:19

12 votes

Accepted

When and where was rape first criminalised independently from adultery?

answered Dec 31, 2016 at 1:21

12 votes

Accepted

Were people in the Neo-Assyrian or Achaemenid Empire aware of the empires before them?

answered May 25, 2015 at 13:55

11 votes

Accepted

How did/do Sumerian numbers sound?

answered Apr 11, 2017 at 22:40

11 votes

Accepted

How did the Nazis view Dickens' Oliver Twist?

answered Apr 2, 2014 at 23:54

11 votes

Was there ever any doubt which side the USA would join?

answered May 1, 2014 at 10:06

11 votes

Accepted

When did hanging emerge as a form of capital punishment?

answered Aug 6, 2014 at 15:50

10 votes

How did Richard I sail through the strait of Gibraltar?

answered Apr 24, 2014 at 17:22

10 votes

Accepted

Why is Papadopoulos such a common surname in Greece?

answered Jun 18, 2019 at 14:08

10 votes

Has there been a war in which the South conquered the North?

answered Jan 29, 2019 at 19:03

10 votes

Did Hitler get called a fascist by his opponents within Germany? Did he or other Nazis have a problem with that?

answered Nov 10, 2015 at 13:26

10 votes

Who were the first people to get divorced in Western* Christendom?

answered Nov 20, 2016 at 0:16

9 votes

Accepted

Can anybody identify this piece of pottery?

answered Feb 26, 2018 at 14:55

8 votes

When did the British monarch become an emperor?

answered Aug 29, 2014 at 10:27

8 votes

Accepted

Did Jaques Chirac say “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [rate] power”?

answered Jan 24, 2015 at 17:14

8 votes

What sovereign Jewish polities have existed outside of Palestine?

answered Jan 26, 2015 at 0:11

Stack Exchange Network

150 Answers

Was hay invented only in the Middle Ages in Europe?

How serious was Fermat's statement about the ancients?

Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?

Were Medieval Britons aware of the existence of the Roman Empire?

When did the Greeks stop calling themselves "Roman"?

What language did Brahe talk with Kepler?

How come every culture on the planet has a different calendar, yet follow the same system for a week?

Earliest evidence of objects intended for future archaeologists?

Did Diderot say "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"?

Was Roosevelt the "biggest slave trader in recorded history"?

Origin of the idea of a series of books

What happened to those ethnic Greeks who converted to Islam during the Ottoman empire?

Does the Ottoman Empire count as a colonial power?

Did Germany's role in WW2 affect the historical perception of its role in WW1?

Did Egyptians circumnavigate Africa in three years during Nekau's reign?

When and where was rape first criminalised independently from adultery?

Were people in the Neo-Assyrian or Achaemenid Empire aware of the empires before them?

How did/do Sumerian numbers sound?

How did the Nazis view Dickens' Oliver Twist?

Was there ever any doubt which side the USA would join?

When did hanging emerge as a form of capital punishment?

How did Richard I sail through the strait of Gibraltar?

Why is Papadopoulos such a common surname in Greece?

Has there been a war in which the South conquered the North?

Did Hitler get called a fascist by his opponents within Germany? Did he or other Nazis have a problem with that?

Who were the first people to get divorced in Western* Christendom?

Can anybody identify this piece of pottery?

When did the British monarch become an emperor?

Did Jaques Chirac say “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [rate] power”?

What sovereign Jewish polities have existed outside of Palestine?