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Have there been studies comparing patriarchial and matriarchial societies?

How did volcanoes affect the history of Imperial Rome?

Why did Hannibal Barca tell Scipio Africanus he thought Pyrrhus of Epirus was almost as good as Alexander the Great and better than even himself despite Pyrrhus's infamy for sustaining catastrophic losses?

Why was Hannibal’s tactic at the Battle of Zama so sloppy compared to his previous ingenious victories and deceptions in Italy?

Which is more intelligent, the bonobo or chimpanzee? How do their intelligences differ?

How did the Gupta Empire become decentralized?

What is the Zomato business model?

Why did all three of the great independent empires to have existed in India (Mughal, Gupta and Maurya) fail to conquer the southern tip of the subcontinent?

Why is the Parsi population declining in India?

How did the British rulers in India fail to check the treasures hidden in temple vaults? Was this mistake their first mistake or is there more to it?

Why did Native Americans never unite against the European colonization that sweep them away from their ancestral lands?

If the British hadn’t displaced the Mughals, would an independence movement for democracy been against the the “foreign” Mughal rule or like the religion of peace they followed, would they have simply have abdicated?

Why does no one point out that after rivalry between Akbar and Pratap, Mewar rulers later had a wonderful relationship with the Mughals? Shah Jahan was a great friend of the Rana. Mewar was destroyed later because of Marathas who looted everything.

Is Akbar the greatest Emperor India had in the last 1000 years?

What were some important inventions from the Mughal empire?

Why did Chandragupta Maurya and Chanakya attack the outer parts of the Nanda Dynasty first?

Is it true that Alauddin Khilji, after winning Chittorgarh, put a Hindu ruler as in charge of the fort? If yes, then how did the Sisodia dynasty rule it again?

Why do most people not accept that ancient Egypt and India were white civilizations?

Was Chandragupta Maurya a descendant of the Porus?

Why did the Western Roman Empire fall? Could it have been delayed?

Who according to you was the greatest leader amongst Lincoln, Gandhi and Mandela?

Was there any examples of ancient/medieval armies having a code of conduct that prohibited violence against civilians?

Is there evidence that the gods worshipped by ancient civilizations were actually spacefaring extraterrestrial beings?

Why didn't the Umayyad caliphate which conquered vast tracts of land from Africa to Iran continue conquest towards East into the fertile lands of India and modern day Pakistan?

How was the end of Lord Rama of Ayodhya and his dynasty?

If after the Mahabharata war, Arjuna's son Abhimanyu and Draupadi's five sons would have remained alive, then who would have been the king of Indraprastha and Hastinapur?

How were troops recruited in the ancient times?