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How did maple syrup come to be the quintessentially Canadian staple it is today? Is its history largely post-colonisation, or was it already seeing widespread use in First Nations cuisines?	15
Did ancient civilians get PTSD? What do we know of the psychological effects of war on noncombatants, and how they dealt with them?	15
How much resistance was there to American overlordship of the Philippines, and what form did it take? How did anti-American movements interact with the Japanese occupation in 1941-5? And how much did formal independence in 1946 owe to pre-war developments?	15
At the time of independence, the population of British Malaya was a mixture of 'native' Malays and those of Chinese and Indian descent. How far had the colonial administration discriminated between the major population groups, such as in terms of law?	15
How far was Western engagement with Japan actually a cause of the fall of the Shogunate (Bakumatsu) in 1868, as opposed to a catalyst for existing forces within Japan or even just incidental to it all?	15
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 203 - Historical Archaeology with u/the_gubna	14
Why did the remnants of the Tokugawa Shoogunate opt to establish the Ezo Republic in 1869 rather than explicitly claiming to be the Shogunate's continuation?	14
How well enforced were the Qing Great Clearance edicts, especially during the Three Feudatories revolt, when two of the key coastal provinces where it was being enacted were held by rebels?	13
The Japanese collaborator regimes in China before Wang Jingwei's all used flags derived from the five-striped flag of the Beiyang Republic. What sort of currency did this symbolic language from the pre-KMT republic hold?	13
What did the Huns want?	13

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