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Is the term 'Peasant' applicable to poor agriculture workers in non western contexts such as China, or should it be limited to Europe?

953 upvotes • Khwarezm

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What were Margaret Thatcher's reforms and why is she so unpopular now?

952 upvotes • Hep-Cat

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Were there any notable wars involving the Inuit of North America?

952 upvotes • AaronC14

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AMA: The English Way of War: Arms, Armour and the Hundred Years War

952 upvotes • Tobias_Capwell

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Why is James Buchanan viewed as being such a bad president? Was he just unlucky to be the last president before the American Civil War, or did he make things worse?

952 upvotes • ottolouis

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Garbed as princes, early Indian sojourners to Britain (e.g. Mirza Abu Taleb Isfahani, Mirza I'tisam ud-Din) were given great respect by the British aristocracy. Yet more than a half-century later, this courtesy has vanished: Sir Syed in 1869 is met with contempt and scrutiny. What explains this?

952 upvotes • Sankon

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What was the first video game to have a space hidden behind a waterfall?

951 upvotes • flapanther33781

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What were the Roman cheeses like?

951 upvotes • walter_h

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How would a medieval banker guarantee that powerful clients such as a kings would repay their loans?

951 upvotes • BigMacMoNo

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Marx and Engels had written that in communist societies the categories of capitalism (prices, wages, money etc) would dissapear and replaced by accounting based on labor time. Was there any discussion or attempt in countries of Eastern bloc and USSR to move towards such a system post 50s?

951 upvotes • Shashank1000

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Is the term 'Peasant' applicable to poor agriculture workers in non western contexts such as China, or should it be limited to Europe?	953	Khwarezm
What were Margaret Thatcher's reforms and why is she so unpopular now?	952	Hep-Cat
Were there any notable wars involving the Inuit of North America?	952	AaronC14
AMA: The English Way of War: Arms, Armour and the Hundred Years War	952	Tobias_Capwell
Why is James Buchanan viewed as being such a bad president? Was he just unlucky to be the last president before the American Civil War, or did he make things worse?	952	ottolouis
Garbed as princes, early Indian sojourners to Britain (e.g. Mirza Abu Taleb Isfahani, Mirza I'tisam ud-Din) were given great respect by the British aristocracy. Yet more than a half-century later, this courtesy has vanished: Sir Syed in 1869 is met with contempt and scrutiny. What explains this?	952	Sankon
What was the first video game to have a space hidden behind a waterfall?	951	flapanther33781
What were the Roman cheeses like?	951	walter_h
How would a medieval banker guarantee that powerful clients such as a kings would repay their loans?	951	BigMacMoNo
Marx and Engels had written that in communist societies the categories of capitalism (prices, wages, money etc) would dissapear and replaced by accounting based on labor time. Was there any discussion or attempt in countries of Eastern bloc and USSR to move towards such a system post 50s?	951	Shashank1000