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In merchant republics like medieval and early modern Venice and Genoa, were attempts to supplant the republic and replace it with some form of monarchy or dynastic rule common? What mechanisms existed to prevent these sort of transitions from occurring?	10
How was marine insurance actually a viable financial product for those who provided it in the 1600s-1800s? Wouldn't it be incredibly easy to commit insurance fraud by claiming your ship sank or your cargo was lost on the other side of the world?	8
Did the average person living during the Roman republic or empire have a sense of what the "world map" looked like? Did the average patrician or senator for that matter?	7
I remember being told in an AP U.S. history class that in the late 19th century, the U.S. government placed a bounty on buffalo for American settlers heading west, with the express intention of weakening Native American tribes who relied heavily on them for food. Is there any truth to this?	7
How long did any serious or organized groups of monarchist sympathizers persist in France after the establishment of the Third Republic? Were there ever any plans or plots to restore a monarchy in some form, even by small or (obviously unsuccessful) groups?	6
Did independence movements and leaders in Africa during the decolonization period of the 1950s and 1960s have any impact on the American civil rights movement, and vice versa?	5
What is the historical consensus on who was truly responsible for the Reichstag fire? Is there a consensus at all?	5
What were the various American founding fathers' and early political figures' views of Napoleon?	5
Best book on the complete history of the city of Washington, DC?	5
How have different societies in the past viewed the phenomena of sleepwalking?	4

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