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In the later Roman Empire, what connection did the “senatorial families” outside of Italy have to the actual Roman senate?	10
When foreign dignitaries had business with a Roman/Byzantine emperor, where were they put up? Did they pay for their own lodgings, or did the imperial palaces have guest quarters, or did local courtiers volunteer to host them?	9
During the Hundred Years' War, why would French commoners like Joan of Arc have supported the Valois claim to the throne over the Plantagenets?	8
In pre-modern China, were there ever any political movements advocating for forms of government other than dynastic monarchies?	8
Did Achaemenid Phoenicia maintain ties with Phoenician colonies in (e.g.) Spain and Sicily, or did Carthage completely take over as hub of the trading network?	7
Given the care taken by the authors of the New Testament not to portray Jesus as an enemy of the Roman state, why does Matthew include the story of the Persian Magi? Wouldn't that be the Cold War equivalent of an American kid being visited by Soviet scientists?	6
What did the Byzantine Romans think of Latin literature? Did they read Greek translations of Cicero and Caesar?	6
Did European countries that abolished their monarchies generally abolish their aristocracies at the same time?	6
Before the Kushan Empire consolidated the region, the Indus Valley and adjacent parts of Central Asia were home to a mishmash of Indo-Greeks, Indo-Scythians, Indo-Parthians, and other local and foreign rulers. Did these groups coexist in some kind of overarching framework like European feudalism?	6
To what extent did contemporary Turkish and Arab astronomers follow the developments around Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton?	5

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