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How did Japan rapidly industrialize during the Meiji Restoration, and why was it allowed to do so by the at the time Imperial Powers like the UK, France, and the United States?	1066
Ancient Carthaginians sailing beyond the Strait of Gibraltar?	34
Are the bureaucratic structures of the very late Roman empire and into the Byzantine Empire comparable with the Chinese bureaucracy of Han and Tang era China?	31
Why are the northern crusades to pacify and convert the last "pagans" of Europe not as famous as their Middle Eastern counterparts started by the Eastern Roman Empire? What even counts as a crusade, do inquisitions count as crusades? Was the Cathar inquisition in France, count as a crusade?	23
Did other counties or ancient heads of states that were contemporaneous, such as the Sassanid Shahenshah, acknowledge the Roman Emperor as anything other than a monarch or otherwise king?	20
Why did Stalin ever agree to sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Hitler in the first place? If Hitler made it a point to make anti-communism a focal point of his espoused ideology and many times in public railed against the existence of and highlighted how much of a threat the USSR was to Germany?	20
What was the nature of the relationship between Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel, who was technically the monarch/king of Italy while he was the dictator, or Il Duce of Italy who had functional defacto power most of the time during WW2	18
Continuity of Roman Era Lantifundias, Manorialism, and the origins of European Feudalism	17
What is the difference between sharecropping and serfdom or indentured servitude, especially when couple with debt peonage?	15
What was the 12th century Renaissance exactly? How did it differ from the earlier Carolingian and Ottonian Renaissances? How did the 12th century Renaissance end and how did it influence the later more famous Italian Renaissance of the 15th century?	14

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