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Why did Vichy French Soldiers in many colonies choose to fight Allied Soldiers?

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Where did people get glass for their house windows in Colonial America?

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Why did Veracruz, Mexico’s most important colonial port, remain relatively small compared to many other port cities during the colonial period?

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When did Sicily start being viewed as an extension of the Italian peninsula rather than its own individual area?

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What made Phillippopolis(Present-Day Plovdiv) such a major city in The Roman Empire?

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How were Orthodox Jewish Communities in the Soviet Union affected by Stalin’s Rule?

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How were Orthodox Jewish Communities in the Soviet Union affected by Stalin’s rule?

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Why did Berlin grow so rapidly from the late 1800s until World War Two?

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It is often stated that a cause of Italy’s poor performance in WW2 was due to their costly victories in Ethiopia and Spain. With this in mind, how did Japan still manage to takeover wide swaths of Asia/the pacific in 1941-2 when they had been engaged in 4 years of brutal conflict in China already?

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Was Orientalism(whether it be an art, literary or political way of thinking) already a present trend in the way Europeans thought about the “East” before Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaigns?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did Vichy French Soldiers in many colonies choose to fight Allied Soldiers?	14
Where did people get glass for their house windows in Colonial America?	7
Why did Veracruz, Mexico’s most important colonial port, remain relatively small compared to many other port cities during the colonial period?	7
When did Sicily start being viewed as an extension of the Italian peninsula rather than its own individual area?	6
What made Phillippopolis(Present-Day Plovdiv) such a major city in The Roman Empire?	5
How were Orthodox Jewish Communities in the Soviet Union affected by Stalin’s Rule?	3
How were Orthodox Jewish Communities in the Soviet Union affected by Stalin’s rule?	1
Why did Berlin grow so rapidly from the late 1800s until World War Two?	1
It is often stated that a cause of Italy’s poor performance in WW2 was due to their costly victories in Ethiopia and Spain. With this in mind, how did Japan still manage to takeover wide swaths of Asia/the pacific in 1941-2 when they had been engaged in 4 years of brutal conflict in China already?	1
Was Orientalism(whether it be an art, literary or political way of thinking) already a present trend in the way Europeans thought about the “East” before Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaigns?	0