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For centuries the US Army fought, killed, raped, and displaced Native Americans. Today Native Americans have the highest per capita rate of serving in the US military. How did the relationship between the military and Native Americans evolve to reach this point?

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u/Tatem1961 — 3 days ago
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When Japan began its reforms, they employed westerners and they became strong. Egypt also employed more than 1000 foreigners but end up losing money and power and become a client state. Why did they have such different trajectories?

Note: this is a question from the Imperial Chinese exams. I thought it was a good question that I didn't have the answer to, so asking the experts.

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u/Tatem1961 — 4 days ago
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[Meta] Is it acceptable to re-ask questions from decades ago that already have high quality answers?

The subreddit is 15 years old. There are many questions with high quality answers that are nearly a decade old. And while academia is slow, it's not that slow, there could have been new discoveries, new interpretations, new theories that have been published in that time.

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u/Tatem1961 — 24 days ago
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Before the proliferation of email, were people getting just as much paper mail in their personal and professional lives? Or did email dramatically increase the amount of messages people have to read.

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u/Tatem1961 — 1 month ago
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In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, any nobleman could veto any law or motion being discussed in the legislature, even against the king. How did they get anything done?

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u/Tatem1961 — 2 months ago
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In the US, African-Americans have fought for decades to be recognized as full and equal Americans. Native Americans on the other hand have fought for decades to be recognized as distinct and sovereign peoples. How did these two contradicting arguments interplay during the Civil Rights era?

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u/Tatem1961 — 2 months ago
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In 1491 the Mameluk Sultanate successfully defeated the Ottoman Empire's invasion and inflicted heavy losses on them. 25 years later they were totally defeated by the Ottomans and fully annexed. Why the big difference in results? How did a single lost war result in their full annexation?

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u/Tatem1961 — 2 months ago
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Reddit was founded in 2005 as a simple link aggregator website. It had no comments, no subreddits, no images, and a bunch of fake accounts. A year later it was acquired for 10~20 million. What happened in that 1 year that made it so valuable?

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u/Tatem1961 — 2 months ago
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It's often said the Imperial Japan would not have surrendered if the Emperor was deposed. But why did Japanese society still consider the Emperor legitimate afterwards, even though 1) He admitted he was human, not divine 2) He lost World War 2?

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u/Tatem1961 — 2 months ago
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Julius Caesar thought Germans were big and strong and made ideal soldiers because they were celibate. Did German men really have less sex then Romans? What does this tell us about how Caesar and Romans thought about male sexuality?

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u/Tatem1961 — 2 months ago