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Can we identify where civilisation (e.g. cities, writing, 'technologies' of various kinds, large-scale organisation) independently arose?
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Did Christians in earlier eras believe that church authorities they thought were wrong still held power over their souls?
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Procopius reports that Justin/Justinian were warned that if Justin adopted Chosroes, the heir of the Persian king, then Chosroes would be the 'adopted heir of the Roman empire', and that the proposed adoption was designed to achieve this. Was this a plausible concern and the basis of the refusal?
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Thucydides is well known as explaining events through political realism. But does this speech from Brasidas show that he presented Spartan oligarchs (as well as Athenian imperialist democrats) as explicitly appealing to 'might makes right' to justify their rule?
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What influence did Roman and Greek concepts of democratic or representative government have on early Parliaments in UK and wider Europe (either when they first formed or e.g. around the Civil Wars in Britain)
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