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Why was the loss of 15,000 Romans at Teutoburg Forest considered such an epic loss when the Romans routinely lost tens of thousands of men in single battles during the Republican period and recovered fairly quickly.

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In 1945, the Soviets were well positioned at the end of World War II to occupy all of Korea had they wanted to. Why did they accept a U.S. offer to divide the peninsula rather than seize it all themselves?

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Why was the loss of 15,000 Romans at Teutoburg Forest considered such an epic loss when the Romans routinely lost tens of thousands of men in single battles during the Republican period and recovered fairly quickly.	442
In 1945, the Soviets were well positioned at the end of World War II to occupy all of Korea had they wanted to. Why did they accept a U.S. offer to divide the peninsula rather than seize it all themselves?	54