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When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, did it do so expecting to lose its colonial holdings in East Africa? If so, did it expect to regain them in short order, or was the medium-term loss of East Africa deemed acceptable in exchange for other short-term gains?	45
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 194 - Missionary Photography in China with Dr. Joseph W. Ho	45
Battlefield tactics in 1914 are often erroneously called 'Napoleonic', and obviously they were not, but when can it be said that tactics stopped being 'Napoleonic', and how? Given the limited role of technology in creating Napoleonic tactics, how much did technology matter in making them obsolete?	44
How Hellenistic was Hellenistic Judaism? Does the term simply refer to Judaism as it existed during the Hellenistic period, or were there considerable Greek influences on Jewish belief and practice, and if so, how much of these influences continue to the present?	44
How did MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) schemes come about?	44
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 190: Women in Medieval Warfare with /u/Hergrim	44
Was Cleopatra VIII perceived by her contemporaries as Macedonian, Greek, or Egyptian, and did this differ depending on perspective? Do we have any idea how she might have considered herself, or do we just have her public personas?	43
Prussia apparently worked towards reforming its army between its exit from the First Coalition in 1795 and its involvement in the Fourth in 1806. What did these reforms entail, and why did they seem to fare so dismally against Napoleon despite them?	43
A common line of thinking that goes around on the internet is that WWI was fought with modern weapons but Napoleonic tactics. Obviously this is untrue, but what was the development of battlefield tactics like between 1815 and 1914? At what point could it be said that tactics ceased to be Napoleonic?	42
For all intents and purposes, William of Orange conquered England in 1689 by sailing from the Netherlands with an army. When, how, and why did this become euphemised as the 'Glorious Revolution' by English and British historians?	41

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