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2021

• 2021/07/04 How Much Did Christianity Spread by Voluntary Individual Conversions Rather Than Forced Mass Conversions?
  
• 2021/06/30 When monotheistic religions started to spread, did the presence of single-god worshipers in society alter the perception of polytheistic worship by polytheists themselves? Did it change how they objectively viewed their gods (e.g. did they begin to categorize/rank the supremacy of their gods)?
  
• 2021/06/28 What up with Canadian mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples? Did Canadian's have a manifest destiny Era too?
  
• 2021/06/27 How can Josephus's "Antiquities of the Jews" be trusted as an actual historical source?
  
• 2021/06/25 Mass graves of Indigenous peoples keep getting discovered at the sites of Canadian residential schools. Should I expect mass graves to be found at Aboriginal missions here in Australia?
  
• 2021/06/24 What religious connotations did the word "dracul" have in relations to Christianity and Vlad Dracul?
  
• 2021/06/21 Were “curse” words always curse words? Or did they evolve into non-socially acceptable words overtime? If so, when did this cultural change happen?
  
• 2021/06/16 How do we know how to transliterate dead languages?
  
• 2021/06/13 How do historians conduct research on oral history, especially cultures whose main record keeping has been oral?
  
• 2021/01/03 How did nomadic, indigenous peoples prevent overpopulation?
  

2020

• 2020/12/02 Other Rosetta Stones?
  
• 2020/10/29 Why did mixed race European-Native American people develop into a distinct identity in Canada (metis) but not in the US?
  
• 2020/10/25 When talking about famous Native Americans, the focus is often on male resistance fighters (Sitting Bull, Louis Riel, Crazy Horse, etc.). Who are some non-militant figures who should be house-hold names but aren't?
  
• 2020/09/09 Shakespeare is credited with inventing a lot of English words. How common in history are wordsmiths like him, who we give that sort of credit to? Are there periods in history during which more words were created? What factors seem to support rapid word creation?
  
• 2020/09/06 In much of Africa, Eurasia and Mesoamerica it is common to see archaeological cultures associated with language, but in the archaeology of the US and Canada it is far harder to find information on this. How far back in time and space can we track Native languages in these areas?
  
• 2020/08/11 American Creole Culture features a high degree of Vodun/Catholic Syncretization. Canadian Metis Culture seemed to favor more direct adoption of Catholicism. What factors contributed to Indigenous beliefs being left behind in one, but not the other?
  
• 2020/07/31 Native Americans and Nature
  
• 2020/07/22 Is it true that Native American children were sold in the USA in the 1950s?
  
• 2020/04/27 Did Native Americans have any myths/beliefs about what existed beyond the Atlantic/Pacific ocean?
  
• 2020/04/17 The Indigenous Peoples' Histories Floating Feature: A open thread to tell the stories and histories of Indigenous peoples from all corners of the globe!
  
• 2020/04/17 How mutually intelligible were the various Algonquin languages/dialects in North America?
  
• 2020/04/15 How does oral history differ between American and European cultural groups in its reliability and form?
  
• 2020/03/21 no myths or lore about depopulation of Americas following 1492?
  
• 2020/03/06 Were there significant cultural as well as linguistic differences between the Na Dene and non-Na Dene indigenous tribes of North America?
  
• 2020/01/14 How does recording oral history, like for language preservation, affect the culture's ongoing oral tradition? Especially if accuracy means adapting to the present?
  

2019

• 2019/08/30 Did any American Indian groups have their genesis after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas?
  
• 2019/05/08 Domestic Cats Were Introduced to North America by Explorers & Colonists. Are There Native American Accounts Of These Early Kitties?
  
• 2019/04/05 Why dose the Ussr anthem mention Russia
  
• 2019/03/14 Why wasn't alcoholism prominent in Native Americans cultures prior to European contact?
  
• 2019/03/13 What happened to the Romanian orphans? How did they turn out as adults after being raised in such abusive conditions? Where are they now?
  
• 2019/03/01 What was so enticing about Christianity that it would gain converts from the common Roman peoples in the 1st century?
  

2018

• 2018/09/20 Did any Ancient Greek look at Mt Olympus and think "I could climb that" and actually attempt to get to the top?
  
• 2018/08/02 Is there any evidence the Ancients were into mountain climbing?
  
• 2018/07/19 Slavery Among Pacific Northwest Native Americans
  
• 2018/07/19 Are the French trappers found in the film, "The Revenant" historically out of place given it's 1823 setting?
  
• 2018/06/24 How come there were never any Native American empires in what is today mainland USA or Canada while Mesoamericans and South Americans were able to create very impressive empries?
  
• 2018/04/02 Why do the Gospels place such a strong emphasis that Pontius Pilate is not responsible for the death of Christ, instead blaming the Jewish people?
  
• 2018/03/04 Did Canada have a westward expedition similar to Lewis and Clark’s?
  
• 2018/01/13 I just read “there's actually evidence that, until modern times, humans didn't see the colour blue at all”. Surely this can’t be true? Could someone clear this up for us
  

2017

• 2017/12/28 How did Native Americans in Canada survive the massive snow dumps and -20/-30 degree weather?
  
• 2017/11/10 When did native American language revitalisation efforts start?
  
• 2017/09/18 Did any pre-European contact Native Americans have an understanding of the size of the continent?
  
• 2017/09/18 Why are Scotch-Irish considered one group, and separate from English, when they are different countries with different beliefs?
  
• 2017/09/03 Ancient Egypt is often described as the longest continuous human civilization, and seems to have maintained a surprising amount of cultural continuity. How accurate is this description? If so why were they able to maintain continuity so much more than other civilizations
  
• 2017/07/06 Where can I find the most unbiased reading of North American Aboriginal/First Nations history pre-contact and post-contact?
  
• 2017/07/01 Why do we sometimes translate the names of Native American historical figures (Sitting Bull) and sometimes not (Tecumseh)?
  
• 2017/02/25 Were people in biblical times as violent as portrayed in the Bible?
  
• 2017/02/13 How did early (pre-European contact) Native American culture view homosexuality?
  

2016

• 2016/04/28 Why do the Jews believe in the myth of exodus from egypt? Why do most historians discredit the idea?
  
• 2016/02/25 Why were native americans so behind in architecture?
  
• 2016/01/15 Biblical historians: why are the lifespans of people mentioned in the genesis accounts recorded as lasting so long?
  

2015

• 2015/11/02 I often see in fantasy a person being "x moons old" or "x summers old". Has this ever been the case in real life? When did it become standard to refer to someone as "x years old"?
  
• 2015/08/13 I recently read a quote saying people die twice. The first when they physically die and the second when the last person that knows their name dies. So who's the oldest person we know the name of?
  
• 2015/02/11 How did Native Americans handle harsh winter weather such as blizzards? Did they have any way of predicting foul weather?
  
• 2015/01/21 When, where, how and who actually used tipis? As well as other tipi related questions.
  

2014

• 2014/11/27 How did Native Americans account for European settlers in a religious context?
  
• 2014/10/22 Is there any sort of historical accounts, written or passed down orally, of major events or battles in North America before conquistadors and others arrived?
  
• 2014/09/14 Question about the consequences and the solution of the Rwanda genocide
  
• 2014/09/10 Can the army sizes given in historical accounts really be trusted?
  
• 2014/05/17 To what extent was the early Christian Church influenced by Platonic thought, and how much of an influence did it have on early Church Fathers such as Augustine?
  
• 2014/04/20 How did Native Americans measure time and distance?
  
• 2014/02/19 Before English became standardized how was it taught in school?
  
• 2014/02/17 How recognizable would a contemporary potlatch be to someone in the 19th century (prior to their ban)?
  
• 2014/02/14 What forms of entertainment did Native Americans have, pre 20th.c?
  
• 2014/02/14 Did Native Americans have names for places, or only the people that inhabited them?
  

2013

• 2013/12/26 What is the oldest recorded human name?
  
• 2013/11/22 Who discovered the reason why the Earth has seasons?
  
• 2013/11/19 Tuesday Trivia | Crazy Cartography: Historical Maps!
  
• 2013/11/15 How did historical people create semi-accurate maps?
  
• 2013/11/06 Canadian question: Did John A McDonald purposefully aggravate the Métis before the North West Rebellion to justify funding the CP rail road?
  
• 2013/10/29 What were some of the indigenious people of europe?
  
• 2013/10/25 What in your study of history have you found especially moving or touching?
  
• 2013/10/06 What caused the Great Vowel Shift, and how do we know about it?
  
• 2013/09/29 How has Native American languages influenced English?
  
• 2013/09/25 Why is the Japanese writing system so complicated?
  
• 2013/09/25 I am a peasant residing inside a small village during the 1400s in England. What do I know about God and the Church?
  
• 2013/09/17 What was the situation in Rwanda before colonialism?