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In pre-modern China, were there ever any political movements advocating for forms of government other than dynastic monarchies?

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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?

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Did European countries that abolished their monarchies generally abolish their aristocracies at the same time?

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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?

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What did the Byzantine Romans think of Latin literature? Did they read Greek translations of Cicero and Caesar?

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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?

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How does your brain know how to assemble the signals from the individual cells in your retina into a spatial image?

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To what extent did contemporary Turkish and Arab astronomers follow the developments around Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton?

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Why is so little classic English literature and folklore set in Anglo-Saxon England?

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Historically, Chinese states seem to change capitals a lot more frequently than western states. Were these moves generally triggered by external changes (e.g., threats from bordering states) or internal ones (e.g., local population growth)?

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In pre-modern China, were there ever any political movements advocating for forms of government other than dynastic monarchies?	8	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Did European countries that abolished their monarchies generally abolish their aristocracies at the same time?	6	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
What did the Byzantine Romans think of Latin literature? Did they read Greek translations of Cicero and Caesar?	6	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
How does your brain know how to assemble the signals from the individual cells in your retina into a spatial image?	5	askscience
To what extent did contemporary Turkish and Arab astronomers follow the developments around Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton?	5	AskHistorians
Why is so little classic English literature and folklore set in Anglo-Saxon England?	5	AskHistorians
Historically, Chinese states seem to change capitals a lot more frequently than western states. Were these moves generally triggered by external changes (e.g., threats from bordering states) or internal ones (e.g., local population growth)?	5	AskHistorians