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In “The emperor’s new groove”, Yzma is portrayed as a high ranking government official. In real life, could women attain such positions of power in Inca society?
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I'm an "untouchable" at the bottom of the Hindu caste system in say, 1600. What stops me from simply going to a far away town where nobody knows me and claiming to be Brahmin, at the top of the caste system. Or at least, anything higher than untouchable.
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In 1967, 90% of Australia voted "yes" in a referendum to recognise Aboriginals as Australian citizens. With such overwhelming public support, what did the "no" campaign look like?
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The Simpson family was supposed to represent the typical American family. Could someone with just a GED realistically support a 5 member family, a four bedroom house and two cars just with just one blue collar job in the late 80's early 90's?
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The City of Rome already had a population greater than one million in in ancient times but without current means of mobility. So was the city actually one cohesive city or was it more like many cities next to each other where the people stayed in their part of Rome?
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Was cold-war hysteria as large in the USSR as it was in the USA? Did the Russians have fallout shelters, "duck and cover", etc?
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Who was Sun Tzu writing for? Given that Art of War gives strategic principles in what are necessarily adversarial circumstances, how did it become widely circulated? Would that not have been disadvantageous to those who inherited his advice?
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[META] Can questions that get over 500 upvotes without a sufficient answer be placed in a "popular unanswered questions" section where people can eventually submit answers and approved answers then get posted as an answered question??
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