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If sugar was so valuable during colonial times, why didn't sugar beet cultivation become more widespread?

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With a much shorter travel distance, why didn't later explorers from Eurasia discover the Americas by way of the Bering Sea long before finding an Atlantic route?

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Since the First Nations people of North America factor so heavily in the Book of Mormon, have they ever been targeted by Mormon evangelists? If so, have those efforts met with much success?

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The Spartan gerousia was made up of exclusively men of the hoplite class over the age of 60. How many such men even existed at any time in the 600s BC?

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In the Bible, or when referring to the Biblical narrative, the inhabitants of modern Palestine are called Philistines. In modern Arabic, they call their homeland Filasṭīn, and themselves al-Filasṭīnī. Why do we call it Palestine and them Palestinians in modern English?

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What are considered the most respected historical sources on King Arthur/Arturus?

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Is it considered a coincidence that both the Hebrews and the native Maori of New Zealand had a concept of a spiritually-nourishing substance called mana?

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How much did the Aztec Empire know about the rest of North America and the Caribbean? We're they aware of a common ancestry with other Uto-Aztecan speakers living farther North?

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What was religious practice in Gaul like between Caesar's conquest and the enforcement of Christianity as the state religion under Constantine?

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How did so many states in Central Asia, which were never part of the Arab world, become so heavily Islamized?

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If sugar was so valuable during colonial times, why didn't sugar beet cultivation become more widespread?	12	AskHistorians
With a much shorter travel distance, why didn't later explorers from Eurasia discover the Americas by way of the Bering Sea long before finding an Atlantic route?	10	AskHistorians
Since the First Nations people of North America factor so heavily in the Book of Mormon, have they ever been targeted by Mormon evangelists? If so, have those efforts met with much success?	10	AskHistorians
The Spartan gerousia was made up of exclusively men of the hoplite class over the age of 60. How many such men even existed at any time in the 600s BC?	10	AskHistorians
In the Bible, or when referring to the Biblical narrative, the inhabitants of modern Palestine are called Philistines. In modern Arabic, they call their homeland Filasṭīn, and themselves al-Filasṭīnī. Why do we call it Palestine and them Palestinians in modern English?	10	AskHistorians
What are considered the most respected historical sources on King Arthur/Arturus?	9	AskHistorians
Is it considered a coincidence that both the Hebrews and the native Maori of New Zealand had a concept of a spiritually-nourishing substance called mana?	9	AskHistorians
How much did the Aztec Empire know about the rest of North America and the Caribbean? We're they aware of a common ancestry with other Uto-Aztecan speakers living farther North?	9	AskHistorians
What was religious practice in Gaul like between Caesar's conquest and the enforcement of Christianity as the state religion under Constantine?	8	AskHistorians
How did so many states in Central Asia, which were never part of the Arab world, become so heavily Islamized?	8	AskHistorians