Home›Open QuestionsCategoryOpen Questions14 entries. Click any to see everything it connects to.BrowseCompareCompare At A Past YearEnter a year to compare these entries as the atlas records them at that moment. Leave it empty for the present. A year before the common era is entered with a minus sign, so 44 BCE is minus 44.Show This YearSelect all 14Did Carthaginian war elephants carry turrets or howdahs for archers in battle?Open Questions2 linksHow accurate are Julius Caesar's own casualty and enslavement figures for the Gallic Wars?Open Questions2 linksHow decisive was the Prussian army's arrival at Waterloo compared to Wellington's own defense earlier in the day?Open Questions2 linksWas Kursk or Stalingrad the true turning point of the war on the Eastern Front?Open Questions2 linksWhat was the true death toll of the Battle of Stalingrad?Open Questions2 linksWhat was the true strength and composition of the Frankish army mustered before the Battle of Hattin?Open Questions2 linksWhat were Hannibal's and Rome's true troop strengths and casualties at the Battle of Cannae?Open Questions2 linksWhen and from whom did the Roman army adopt the pilum?Open Questions2 linksWhen did the Carthaginian army and its Numidian cavalry allies first take shape as organized fighting forces, rather than simply appearing first in surviving written accounts?Open Questions3 linksWhen was the pincer movement first used as a deliberate tactic?Open Questions2 linksWhere and when was the counterweight trebuchet first developed?Open Questions2 linksWhy do medieval death-toll figures for the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire differ so drastically from what modern historians consider plausible?Open Questions2 linksWhy do Vietnam War death toll estimates vary by a factor of three or more?Open Questions2 linksWhy does no single reconciled death toll exist for the Hundred Years' War?Open Questions2 links