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How was Ibn Battuta (or other travelers like him) able to communicate with people as far as China and Tanzania?

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In 789 a group of Viking raiders landed in Dorset and killed a royal official after he mistook them for merchants and tried to have them pay a trading tax on their goods. How would the official have communicated that?

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How and why was Japan able to remain one of the very few Asian countries never subject to foreign colonialism during New Imperialism?

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How ethnically and culturally similar were ancient Greeks and Macedonians?

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How well trained in swordsmanship were British redcoats?

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To what extent was the spread of Islam bloodless?

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What was the situation in Soviet Central Asia during World War II? What would life in the Central Asian Soviet Republics have been like during the war?

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When did the modern understanding of the history of Bronze Age Mesopotamia develop?

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How do we know that the Hunnic religion was Tengriism?

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Could war airships be punctured by small arm bullets? How easy was it to shoot down airships?

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How was Ibn Battuta (or other travelers like him) able to communicate with people as far as China and Tanzania?	7
In 789 a group of Viking raiders landed in Dorset and killed a royal official after he mistook them for merchants and tried to have them pay a trading tax on their goods. How would the official have communicated that?	6
How and why was Japan able to remain one of the very few Asian countries never subject to foreign colonialism during New Imperialism?	6
How ethnically and culturally similar were ancient Greeks and Macedonians?	5
How well trained in swordsmanship were British redcoats?	5
To what extent was the spread of Islam bloodless?	4
What was the situation in Soviet Central Asia during World War II? What would life in the Central Asian Soviet Republics have been like during the war?	4
When did the modern understanding of the history of Bronze Age Mesopotamia develop?	3
How do we know that the Hunnic religion was Tengriism?	3
Could war airships be punctured by small arm bullets? How easy was it to shoot down airships?	2