Is Sarah Paine reliable as a historian?
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Why did some religions (like Christianity and Islam) spread faster than their rival religions (like paganism and Zoroastrianism) in history?
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Did Cyrus the great's actual Persian name have origins related to the ancient Indo-European Kuru tribe which established the Kuru kingdom?
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Rigveda is the earliest preserved composition of the Hindu tradition. However in later hindusim, Rigvedic gods like Indra and Varuna were less popular as compared to gods like Shiva and Vishnu. How and why did this change take place?
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The Celts, the Germanic people, The Romans and the ancient Iranians were all descendants of Indo-Europeans. Why were they then so dismissive of each other's culture?
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Rigveda is the earliest preserved composition of the Hindu tradition. However in later hindusim, Rigvedic gods like Indra and Varuna were less popular as compared to gods like Shiva and Vishnu. How and why did this change take place?
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I know Dan touched upon this in King of Kings, but it seems almost everything that we know about the Greco-Persian wars comes exclusively from Greek sources. What happened to the Persian sources? Do we know how they perceived the war?
It seems almost everything that we know about the Greco-Persian wars comes exclusively from Greek sources. What happened to the Persian sources? Do we know how they perceived the war?
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