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A comment that I've often heard from others, as well as my history professors is that many European colonies were rarely cost effective investments, and often yielded little economic benefit to the home country in the long run. Is there strong evidence for this claim?
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Why is Islam more common in the countries near the Adriatic Sea such as Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc and less common in the countries closer to Turkey like Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia?
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The Odyssey and The Iliad are fundamental to the Western canon - did other ancient cultures have a literary equivalent to these two epic poems?
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How much wealth did Nazi Germany actually control at the peak of their power? How does this compare (adjusted for inflation) with the wealth of other European empires?
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Why did gangsters go from wearing suits and give off the aura of a classy businessman to wearing tracksuits and looking like lower class citizens?
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