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Why and how were the Romans able to recover from such devastating losses early in the Second Punic War while so many other nations of the time would collapse under such pressure?	14
How did so many ancient Greek and Roman documents end up stashed away and forgotten in European monasteries/churches for centuries to be rediscovered during the Renaissance period?	10
Why didn't gun technology develop in China as it did in Europe since gunpowder was invented there?	10
I read a story somewhere that Stalin once had a psychologist profile him after he took power and was diagnosed as having multiple conditions such as sociopathy, narcissism, and the like. The psychologist disappeared shortly afterward and was never heard from again. Does this have any basis in fact?	8
In A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, Gerhard Weinberg claims that in fall 1940 Molotov sent feelers to the Germans to explore the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Tri-Partite pact but received no response as Hitler had already decided to invade them. Is this true?	5
How did British Guiana, Suriname, and French Guiana end up being colonized by the British, Dutch, and French respectively while the rest of South America was dominated by the Spanish and Portuguese?	5
[NSFW] How did sexuality differ in the Roman Empire at its founding to the contemporary United States? How was it similar? NSFW	5
Where did the phrase "X must be rolling in their grave" come from?	5
How and why did minority-dominated ghettos emerge in US cities after World War II?	4
Why did Europeans want SE Asian spices so much, and was it the main driving force behind the burst of European exploration that took place in the 15th-16th centuries?	4

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