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Did early civilizations have a bias towards arid locations?

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Where can I learn more about clothing and appearance for Muslim Medieval peasants?

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In the Pre-modern world, when people were building monumental structures like the Roman Colosseum or Medieval Cathedrals, were there full time professional 'construction crews' like exist today or was the work by unprofessional labourers on an ad-hoc basis?

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Did the French Revolution actually help France's financial crisis?

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I often hear that early Muslim societies were quite dependent on the Jizya tax, and that mass conversion to Islam was actually a problem for them since it ate away at their tax base. What was stopping them from simply increasing taxation on Muslims?

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During the medieval and early modern period, what did people in Egypt think of the pyramids? Would they have known much about their history?

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Did the Aztecs know anything about Bison or Bears?

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Did the Mughals, and other Sunni States outside of the Ottoman sphere of influence, take the Ottoman claims of Caliphate particularly seriously?

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On the page for losses in Yugoslavia during World War 2, Wikipedia states that there are estimates of German deaths that go as high as 100,000 killed, almost 5 times higher than the more conventional figure of roughly 20,000, is this figure considered reliable?

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Were the European conquests in the New World only possible because of a unique degree of Barbarity within European society at the time?

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Did early civilizations have a bias towards arid locations?	6
Where can I learn more about clothing and appearance for Muslim Medieval peasants?	6
In the Pre-modern world, when people were building monumental structures like the Roman Colosseum or Medieval Cathedrals, were there full time professional 'construction crews' like exist today or was the work by unprofessional labourers on an ad-hoc basis?	6
Did the French Revolution actually help France's financial crisis?	6
I often hear that early Muslim societies were quite dependent on the Jizya tax, and that mass conversion to Islam was actually a problem for them since it ate away at their tax base. What was stopping them from simply increasing taxation on Muslims?	6
During the medieval and early modern period, what did people in Egypt think of the pyramids? Would they have known much about their history?	6
Did the Aztecs know anything about Bison or Bears?	5
Did the Mughals, and other Sunni States outside of the Ottoman sphere of influence, take the Ottoman claims of Caliphate particularly seriously?	5
On the page for losses in Yugoslavia during World War 2, Wikipedia states that there are estimates of German deaths that go as high as 100,000 killed, almost 5 times higher than the more conventional figure of roughly 20,000, is this figure considered reliable?	5
Were the European conquests in the New World only possible because of a unique degree of Barbarity within European society at the time?	4