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How was pilgrimage to ka'bah organized in pre-Islamic Mecca?	37
My great-great grandfather house when he lived in Java during Dutch colonialism is going to be sold. What would a historian/archaeologist do to preserve anything about his house?	36
The history of youth movement in post-World War II Japan? Until the early 1990s, perhaps.	33
When did the Syrian Christians start to call themselves as Suryaye?	27
"The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is the first multinational corporation." Is this statement accurate or anachronistic?	25
Islam put great importance of hadith transmission on reliability of the person. Is this practice invented by Islam or it does it predate Islam? What was the oral and literary tradition in 7th-8th century Arabia like?	25
Considering our lives today are intertwined with digital platforms and the platforms might be inaccesible in the future, have there been efforts to preserve the vast amount of data in digital platforms today to be accessible to future historians?	20
Today we can easily refer the institution doing policy-making that rule upon us, along with its bureaucratic elements, as "the state" and/or "the government". But when did we start recognizing those concepts? Prior to the recognition, what would a layperson call them?	19
I'm an average joe in the early phase of "Age of Discovery" in 15th century. How would I react to this massive exploration and how would I know about it? How would I think about the idea of "uncharted lands"?	19
In the long course of Western* history, has technology always been heralded as having solution to world problem - or is it a recent development, perhaps related to Enlightenment obsession with technology and scientific inquiry?	18

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