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The Mongols exterminated ~60 million people during their conquests, including 90% of the Iranian population (Hitler's Holocaust murdered 66% of European Jews, by comparison). Just how was the Mongol genocide machinery so effective in the absence of modern technology and bureaucracy?
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I found a Koryo (Korea) era book dating around 990 CE that my great grandfather had. It's still readable but not in the best condition. What should I do with it?
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As Lord Protector, Cromwell was referred to as Your Highness, had the power to call and dismiss Parliament, created peerages, and had a pseudo-coronation in 1657. His son even succeeded him briefly as LP. Were there any prominent accusations during his lifetime that he was a monarch in all but name?
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Were Pacific Islander cultures ever sufficiently remote/detached to consider the entire world as simply an ocean dotted by chains of islands? If so, did they have a name or ideological/religious concept for this theoretically "endless ocean"?
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Was anybody in 1952 worried about the ascension of the 25-year old Queen Elizabeth II to the British throne?
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The Coca-Cola Company have created Fanta to circumvent embargo and IBM provided counting machines to concentration camps. How do American companies manage their German and occupied countries subsidiaries during the WW2?
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I am a European King living between 1000-1500, I hear from my spy that my sister is shoved around/abused by her husband the king of Random Kingdom with whom an alliance is beneficial/necessary (hence the marrige). What can I do? Do I care enough to do anything? Is it expected of me to intervene?
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