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I've heard that the 'Righteous armies' that were formed by local Korean leaders during the Imjin War included both Confucian literati, Buddhist monks and Traditional shamen. How did these disparate and conflicting groups come together and did some seek to ally with the Japanese?	3
As the Roman Empire transitioned from the Hellenic religion with it's ideal of sternly rhadamanthine justice to the Christian religion, which emphasised mercy, do we know if commutation of criminal sentences increased and what effect this had on crime?	2
How much of the growth of Christianity in Sengoku Japan was due to the destruction of temples and shrines and the forcible conversion of common people, encouraged by the Jesuits?	2
I'm an artisan of Lin'an in the late 12th century and I think my new house is haunted. Who am I am calling to exorcise it?	2
Hitler's Gigantomania is often blamed for the many ridiculously impractical tank projects that were suggested in Nazi Germany, such as the Ratte. What was the cause of the equally impractical O-I super-heavy tank and Type 95 Heavy Tank designs prototyped by the Japanese?	2
In Obeyd-e Zakani’s work, the ‘Ethics of the Aristocrats’, an anecdote describes a Persian Christian convert to Islam is carried around town in a procession. Do we know if this would be a normal part of the conversion proceedings in 14th century Persia?	2
What was the social significance of the outbreaks of cannibalism that occurred during the Chinese Cultural Revolution?	2
What would the social life and overall outlook for a Hellenic individual in the Eastern Roman Empire such as the historian Zosimus be in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD?	2
Before the arrival of popular "world renouncing" ideologies such as Cynicism or Epicurianism in ancient Rome, would it be thinkable for a individual on his or her own to go off into the forest, mountains etc to get away from others?	2
What is the historical consensus regarding how brutal the slave raids carried out by the Crimean Khanate were to the population of Eastern Europe? Were the extreme descriptions of suffering given by contemporaries largely propaganda or more accurate?	2

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