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Hitler infamously said, "We only have to kick in the door...", about the invasion of the Soviet Union. Was he (and the nazis) alone in viewing the USSR as unstable and "rotten"? Did for example the British leadership share that view?	248
The French and British, during the 8 month "Phoney War", did not launch a large scale offensive into Germany, was this an actual strategic decision they made?	102
Did Mycenaean Greece experience a depopulation during, and shortly after, the so called "bronze age collapse"? Or did people just move away from palatial grounds?	82
How unified and centralized was the Carthaginian empire? Would someone living outside of the core of the empire, a trader or a sailor for example, identify himself to foreign states as "from the Carthaginian realm"?	76
Since the city of Troy was rediscovered, has anything else from the Epic Cycle been confirmed to record an actual historical event?	55
The French started the Maginot Line in the 1929, almost 10 years before WWII broke out. Was the Weimar Republic giving off any warning signs that war was inevitable, already back then?	50
How did the Romans understand the concept of an empire? Did they view Arsacid empire/Sasanian empire as on their "level"?	37
Did the Romans differentiate between empires and kingdoms?	21
During operation Barbarossa, how secure was Stalins position as absolute leader of the Soviet Union? Was the early success of the Nazi Germany a threat to him personally?	20
Ḫattuša contained around 30,000 cuniform tablets, are all of them translated? What's the current statues on the other Hittite archives in Anatolia? Is there specific information we're missing on the Hittites that we expect/want to find on these tablets?	17

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