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

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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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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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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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Did the Aztecs know anything about Bison or Bears?

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Why did the British and French so thoroughly fail to predict America's furious reaction to the Suez Crisis in 1956?

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Is it true that some of the more excessively violent aspects of Aztec religion and culture can be pinned on one individual, Tlacaelel?

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Somaliland is much more stable than the rest of Somalia and has sought independence for some time, is this a legacy of the difference between Italian and British administration of Somalia?

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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 the French Revolution actually help France's financial crisis?	6	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Did the Mughals, and other Sunni States outside of the Ottoman sphere of influence, take the Ottoman claims of Caliphate particularly seriously?	5	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Did the Aztecs know anything about Bison or Bears?	5	AskHistorians
Why did the British and French so thoroughly fail to predict America's furious reaction to the Suez Crisis in 1956?	4	AskHistorians
Is it true that some of the more excessively violent aspects of Aztec religion and culture can be pinned on one individual, Tlacaelel?	4	AskHistorians
Somaliland is much more stable than the rest of Somalia and has sought independence for some time, is this a legacy of the difference between Italian and British administration of Somalia?	4	AskHistorians
Were the European conquests in the New World only possible because of a unique degree of Barbarity within European society at the time?	4	AskHistorians