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The 1788 US election garnered a paltry 1.8% voter participation rate - did this include only eligible voters? What was voter expectation like in the very early republic, and what would motivate an eligible voter to exercise his right or not?
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"Bell Pit Mines" are both ubiquitous in very early Europe (2500 BC) and notoriously prone to sudden collapse when working on them. Have archaeologists found anything interesting digging up collapsed Bell Pits? Neolithic flint miners, buried with all as it was at the moment of collapse?
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When I read about radical movements in the early 1900s, it seems America was enamored with Georgism while Russia was a fight between Marxists and various Anarchist tendencies. Why did Russians, who sat in an even worse position of land monopolization, seemingly not produce Georgists besides Tolstoy?
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During the sixty year reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the 1700s, the population of China doubled. When this happened contemporaneously in Europe, historians could point to the huge changes of the Great Divergence, but what was going on in the comparatively continous China?
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Aristocratic second sons in medieval Europe are often imagined being pressured into a monastery or set up to rise through clerical office, but what kind of background produced normal, run-of-the-mill parish priests?
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Pro-Mao protests rocked Hong King during the 1960s, well after mass famines in the PRC communes were public knowledge, and in the middle of the chaotic iconoclasm of the cultural revolution. What made Maoist revolution continually attractive for the Hong Kong youth in the face of these disasters?
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How did "Moderate Republicans" in 1861 expect the Civil War to end? Did normal voters actually think Slavery would still exist after a full secession war to maintain it was put down, just with Slave owners lacking their outsized power and expansionism?
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Two-Spirit peoples in Native American tribes often have specific social roles to fulfil, but where they expected to take a life partner and raise a family like cis women?
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I hear Rabbinical, Oral Tradition based "Talmudic" Judaism beat out its competitors to inherit the mantle of Jewish religion in the 3rd or 4th century...but there were Jewish communities in Yemen, India, even China. How did they experience the transition to the dominance of the Talmudic framework?
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