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Foreigners were banned from Japan except for a few ports, and yet the Jesuits managed to go inland, live with regular people, and even publish a book about the Japanese language, how were they able to do all this?
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Zhu Yuanzhang was once a poor peasant who almost starved to death, and rose to be the Emperor of China, he then made a lot of reforms to help the common people like him but... why did he keep the imperial system?
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How were elections managed in early Mexico?, how did you register to vote?, where could you vote?, how long did it take to know the results?
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In 1810 during the Mexican war of independence a guy known as "El Pípila" used a big rock as a shield to set fire to the door of a fortress. Why wasn't this technique more common?
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