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I've heard that Pol Pot believed that Cambodian villagers loved the Khmer Rouge regime and was surprised that they "no longer sang." How much truth is there to this?

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What caused climate change in the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity?

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Who lived on the Hungarian plain before the arrival of the Magyars?

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How were emigrants actually moved and expelled during the 1923 Greco-Turkish Population Exchange?

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When did France first declare war on Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars?

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What happened to the Napoleonic system of nobility after the Restoration in France?

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To what degree did fictional portrayals like Fu Manchu affect perceptions of Chinese in America?

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[Urbanism] What made the urban palace culture of the Mycenaeans susceptible to the Late Bronze Age Collapse?

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What were some of the observable effects of the adoption of the physiocrat platform in 17th and 16th century France? How effective weere physiocratic reforms in improving economic yield, and how much merit did the platform have as a practical application of economic theory?

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How would one prove one's ethnicity in the late Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empire?

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I've heard that Pol Pot believed that Cambodian villagers loved the Khmer Rouge regime and was surprised that they "no longer sang." How much truth is there to this?	311
What caused climate change in the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity?	18
Who lived on the Hungarian plain before the arrival of the Magyars?	15
How were emigrants actually moved and expelled during the 1923 Greco-Turkish Population Exchange?	15
When did France first declare war on Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars?	13
What happened to the Napoleonic system of nobility after the Restoration in France?	12
To what degree did fictional portrayals like Fu Manchu affect perceptions of Chinese in America?	11
[Urbanism] What made the urban palace culture of the Mycenaeans susceptible to the Late Bronze Age Collapse?	11
What were some of the observable effects of the adoption of the physiocrat platform in 17th and 16th century France? How effective weere physiocratic reforms in improving economic yield, and how much merit did the platform have as a practical application of economic theory?	11
How would one prove one's ethnicity in the late Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empire?	10