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Would sending your son to a Buddhist temple/monastery provide a real chance at upward mobility for Japanese peasants in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods or were high positions basically restricted to the nobility?	7
Supposing that the leader of a frontier town or army on the border between the Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Rum wished to switch sides in either direction, what kind of procedure would there be? Would it necessitate a religious conversion or any kind of loyalty test?	7
People in the Roman Empire belonged to various Hellenic religious clubs or collegia, dedicated various gods, from traditional deities like Bacchus to eastern gods such as Isis. How different would the activities and operations of these Hellenic clubs differ from Jewish and Christian organisations?	6
Would sending your son to a Buddhist temple/monastery provide a real chance at upward mobility for Japanese peasants in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods or were high positions basically restricted to the nobility?	6
The Roman Emperor Julian criticised the Christians of Alexandria for rejecting their honoured founder and storied history, as well as their patron Gods by accepting Christianity. Would they have seen it that way?	6
Medieval and Early Modern Kings doting on and favouring courtier who is then murdered by disgruntled nobles is a well-recorded historical trope. Aside from realist concerns about the influence of said men, was the idea that the King might be playing a passive sexual role a concern? NSFW	6
In most periods in Chinese history, theoretically even the poorest peasant could petition the Emperor with grievances. Was this practice transmitted to Japan along with other Confucian customs in the 7th century Ritsuryō reforms?	5
How did contemporary Byzantines in particular and Christendom in general view the Abbasid Revolution? Did they even pay it much attention?	5
Hellenic cities in the ancient world had troops of child choristers to sing hymns at festivals and major events. Did this long standing tradition influence later Christian choral traditions?	5
Certain Christian rulers in the Middle Ages gained names like 'Priest-hater' or 'The Wicked' due to bad relations with the Church. Can we tell how far these titles were hyperbolic and to what extent a given ruler really did/could hate the Church and /or Christianity?	5

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