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Why did the Russian Provisional Government decide to launch an offensive in June 1917 when antiwar sentiment was the key motivating factor in the Revolution that deposed the Tsar earlier that year?	7
Given how famous Stalin is for his suspicion and paranoia, why was he not able to see Hitler's invasion coming?	7
Where did the Central Asian nomadic peoples get their weapons?	6
Ancient Western Religions had Pantheons, with a hierarchy of gods including monarchs. But many Ancient Western societies did away with their monarchs in favour of republicanism. Was there any tension between these two concepts in the Ancient World?	6
When did the Wars of the First, Second, Third, etc. Coalition against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France get their names? What were they referred to at the time? Were they even considered separate wars by contemporaries?	6
How did that big chunk of Hungarians end up in the middle of Romania?	6
Were there many Western Christian Heresies between the 7th century and the 11th century? And why did so many Catholic heresies (Catharism, Waldesianism, Patarians, etc) seem to arise in the high medieval period starting around the 12th century?	6
When the Ancient Greeks founded colonies around the Mediterranean and Black Sea in the first Millennium BC, did they violently displace the indigenous inhabitants of those areas?	5
Did France ever have a serious chance of ending the Western Schism in favour of the Avignon Pope, either through force or diplomacy?	5
Why is Antioch/Antakya a part of Turkey and not Syria? Historically it has consistently been administered as a part of Syria, including under the Roman, Ottoman, and then French Empires, and it is clearly in geographical Syria rather than geographical Anatolia. Why did the French give it to Turkey?	5

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