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How did the power and economic reach of pre-modern organizations like the British East India Company compare to modern megacorporations?

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What historical factors, if any, have contributed to the region of America known as Appalachia becoming so underdeveloped relative to the rest of the United States, such that it's now the archetype for crushing rural poverty?

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What did the Romans and Greeks of antiquity know of or think about the land and peoples of the Arabian peninsula?

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What was the reaction of the Eastern Romans to the fall of Rome itself in 476?

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What motivated American nouveau riche families of the 19th and early 20th centuries to marry their daughters into the houses of European nobility?

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Good book on "great power" geopolitics in Europe the 19th century?

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Why did Greece and Rome, two cultures that influenced each other in many ways, have such different attitudes and apparent skill when it came to seafaring?

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How did the power and economic reach of pre-modern organizations like the British East India Company compare to modern megacorporations?	579
What historical factors, if any, have contributed to the region of America known as Appalachia becoming so underdeveloped relative to the rest of the United States, such that it's now the archetype for crushing rural poverty?	161
What did the Romans and Greeks of antiquity know of or think about the land and peoples of the Arabian peninsula?	47
What was the reaction of the Eastern Romans to the fall of Rome itself in 476?	38
What motivated American nouveau riche families of the 19th and early 20th centuries to marry their daughters into the houses of European nobility?	20
Good book on "great power" geopolitics in Europe the 19th century?	12
Why did Greece and Rome, two cultures that influenced each other in many ways, have such different attitudes and apparent skill when it came to seafaring?	1