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What was the electric eel called when electricity was not common knowledge, or by peoples who did not know of electricity?

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How did Europeans perceive Russia before Peter the Great?

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How exactly did the Aztecs distribute the cacao bean as currency? Did the state have a monopoly on bean production? Were bean farmers the richest people in the empire?

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Why is the original Aladdin story set in China? What did medieval Muslims think of China?

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Is the Ethiopian Jewish community descended from the Ancient Israelites, or from medieval Christian converts to Judaism?

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Why did Morocco never found a colony in America?

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What did Buddhists think of early Islam?

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How did precolonial Indians (from actual India) view Europeans?

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One Ottoman writer in the 1600s has his fictional Native American characters say, "Our world used to be peaceful, but it has been filled with a greedy people, who make war every year and shorten our lives." Was sympathy for non-Muslim victims of European imperialism common among the Ottomans?

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I heard that the Aztecs thought Teotihuacan was built by the gods. Why were they so ignorant of history compared to China or Europe, which had detailed non-mythical accounts of the first millennium AD?

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What was the electric eel called when electricity was not common knowledge, or by peoples who did not know of electricity?	139
How did Europeans perceive Russia before Peter the Great?	135
How exactly did the Aztecs distribute the cacao bean as currency? Did the state have a monopoly on bean production? Were bean farmers the richest people in the empire?	127
Why is the original Aladdin story set in China? What did medieval Muslims think of China?	125
Is the Ethiopian Jewish community descended from the Ancient Israelites, or from medieval Christian converts to Judaism?	118
Why did Morocco never found a colony in America?	92
What did Buddhists think of early Islam?	92
How did precolonial Indians (from actual India) view Europeans?	89
One Ottoman writer in the 1600s has his fictional Native American characters say, "Our world used to be peaceful, but it has been filled with a greedy people, who make war every year and shorten our lives." Was sympathy for non-Muslim victims of European imperialism common among the Ottomans?	58
I heard that the Aztecs thought Teotihuacan was built by the gods. Why were they so ignorant of history compared to China or Europe, which had detailed non-mythical accounts of the first millennium AD?	55