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Did English longbowmen have significant advantages over other archers with good training/professionalism? (e.g., Saracens of Lucera, Magyar archers, Byzantine psiloi, Turkish Azaps, etc)	213
Were the Aztecs incapable of conquering the Tlaxcalans, or did they choose to let them keep an enclave and raid it for flower war captives and such?	209
Why did no Japanese shoguns (or other de facto rulers) ever formally usurp the emperor?	134
Why was the gladius a primary weapon for Roman legionaries? Why did it work?	131
The "Five Races Under One Union" flag (五色旗) included the Han, Hui, Manchus, Mongols, and Tibetans. It didn't include some other ethnic groups, such as the Miao or Zhuang. What kind of political processes lead to the decisions about whom to include and exclude?	130
The Roman curia's perspective on the Teutonic Knights'/Northern crusaders attacks on Orthodox states like Novgorod?	106
Was the Ottoman conquest of Crete as devastating as the Wikipedia article claims? Also, do we have Greek Cretan accounts of the Venetian period and the Ottoman conquest?	96
Would a gay slave-owner in the antebellum southern US who sexually exploited his male slaves be regarded as more scandalous than a straight slave-owner who did it to female slaves, or was there an implicit "it's not the Sin of Sodom if it's just your chattels" type rule?	90
Did militaries make any organized attempts to exploit the advantages of left-handed/ambidextrous people in hand-to-hand combat situations? (Assuming that there is such an advantage?)	88
Would the average 10th century Anglo-Saxon, Frank, or the like (commoner or low-ranking noble) have gotten married More Danico, or More Christiano?	55

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