Compilation of unanswered r/AskHistorians questions I've asked over the years

Notably Novel Nightmares - Weekly Discussion Thread - January 17th, 2025

Please HELP Expand This List Of, TRULY, 100% Free Table Top Wargames

[Greek myth/Achilles] Why didn't Thetis, after submerging Achilles in the river Styx by his heel not just then flip him over and just dip his heel in the styx as well to make him fullyinvulnerable?

Friday Free-for-All | January 17, 2025

Sharp Practice - what do I *need* to buy and what is just "nice to have"?

Defiantly Displaying Deez - Weekly Discussion Thread - January 11th, 2025

TIL: Bajorans clap differently than humans

Why didn't the US or NATO consider supporting rebels from Tibet and/or East Turkestan (Xinjiang) in their fight against Communist China?

Why didn't Christianity take over Arabia like it did in Europe?

Graphs or such?

When did China realize they were no longer the center of the world?

Why was the Qing dynasty just unable to reform and modernize there military to hold its own against western powers?

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 January 2025

Wongmook Kang, "Xenophobia Among Han Chinese Elites in the High Qing," Late Imperial China 45:2 (2024)

How do you think Stalin or Mao would play in a modern Civ game?

Gregarious Gracile Gremlins - Weekly Discussion Thread - January 6th, 2025

Non euro-civ Revolution ideas

Vox's super chat revenues in 2022, 2023, and 2024, according to Playboard. (2024's screenshot has been edited to save space)

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 06 January 2025

Wargames or skirmish games that are more melee based than shooting?

They never wanted audiences to like Bianca.

New Civ Game Guide: Qing

State of the Sub 2024

The Atlantic strikes again: David Frum on colonial history