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Han China is surrounded by smaller nations who at one point established Buddhism as the state religion, was China ever likely to follow their example?

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Was Buddhism in Japan before the Kamakura period purely an elite religion?

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In the Eastern Roman Empire as late as the 7th century AD, accusations of widespread crypto-paganism, affecting even those in high positions of the Church and State, caused high profile show trials and episodes of mob violence. What is the historical consensus on the veracity of such allegations?

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Antony Beevor recounts the during and shortly after the Spanish Civil War, certain young men of the gentry would hunt tenant farmers for sport. Would this ‘sport’ be another unprecedented atrocity of this war or did it have a precedent?

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How hotly contested were the inter-Christian disputes of Late Antiquity?

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What did the title ‘Sotor’ when applied to a God signify for an Ancient Greek Hellene?

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Did the relative decentralisation of Medieval European states compared to contemporary Near Eastern and Far Eastern states significantly increase the security of the elite?

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Was castration a common punishment for the sons of executed or exiled nobles in pre-modern Islamic societies?

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Has there ever been an attempt to compare and contrast the civil wars of the late Republic with the civil wars of the Tetrarchy?

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Did the powerful Monshu Rennyo have a revolutionary vision for a theocratic Japan?

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Han China is surrounded by smaller nations who at one point established Buddhism as the state religion, was China ever likely to follow their example?	5
Was Buddhism in Japan before the Kamakura period purely an elite religion?	5
In the Eastern Roman Empire as late as the 7th century AD, accusations of widespread crypto-paganism, affecting even those in high positions of the Church and State, caused high profile show trials and episodes of mob violence. What is the historical consensus on the veracity of such allegations?	4
Antony Beevor recounts the during and shortly after the Spanish Civil War, certain young men of the gentry would hunt tenant farmers for sport. Would this ‘sport’ be another unprecedented atrocity of this war or did it have a precedent?	4
How hotly contested were the inter-Christian disputes of Late Antiquity?	3
What did the title ‘Sotor’ when applied to a God signify for an Ancient Greek Hellene?	3
Did the relative decentralisation of Medieval European states compared to contemporary Near Eastern and Far Eastern states significantly increase the security of the elite?	3
Was castration a common punishment for the sons of executed or exiled nobles in pre-modern Islamic societies?	3
Has there ever been an attempt to compare and contrast the civil wars of the late Republic with the civil wars of the Tetrarchy?	3
Did the powerful Monshu Rennyo have a revolutionary vision for a theocratic Japan?	3