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Why was Ghandhi opposed to lower castes having political power?	250
Before the great depression newspapers published the names of all those who received welfare payments. Was this because it was public information and scandal brought in readers or was this part of the government disincentive to use the program?	34
What role did the Roman latifundia and military elites play in western Europe after the collapse of Rome? Did they stay and intermingle with local elites leaving aristocratic bloodlines that became the new feudalist nobillity? How did that transition take place?	30
Confucius's hagiographers, claimed that he ordered the execution of numerous court dwarfs after defeating one of them in a debate. Was it normal in China to have people executed after beating them in debate?	19
Luigi Cadorna lost hundreds of thousands of men in frontal assaults against enemy barbwired machine gun protected trenches for 2.5 years. He executed his own soldiers en masse for cowardice. How? Why?	11
What types of systems existed for sharing reputation information between mediaeval traders?	9
What was the economic collapse of Liberia like with gdp declining almost 90% in such a short time?	7
How much cargo could an ocean going cargo transport ship carry in the 1300s?	5
Did European old money families receive their confiscated wealth back after the USSR/eastern bloc collapsed? What was the process and details of that?	4
USSR entrepreneurs engaged in private trade and small-scale manufacturing under the New Economic Policy1921-1928. Hatred of profiteers was focused on the NEPmen but took on an increasingly anti-Semitic tinge, were Jews disproportionate beneficiaries of this NEP?	3

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