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Does the Yazidi worship of the Angel "Shaytan" relate in a substantial matter to Satan, as was accused by Christian and Muslims?	54
How did 19th century sunni leaders not subject to the Ottoman Empire justify their independence alongside an existent (presumable legitimate) Caliphate?	37
Cornwall mined and exported tin all the way to the Mediterranean as early as 2000 BC, deep in British prehistory. If a Briton from another, agrarian corner of the island visited Cornwall in the bronze age, what material or immaterial products of trade would make the Cornish stand out?	36
Have historians qualified the accuracy of Nietzsche's account of the history of ethical thought in his "genealogy of morals"?	33
What would a first century "Mass" look like among the early Christian church? Would Peter have had a ritualized liturgy he performed when in Rome? Would he have consecrated bread and wine? Recited creedal statements with those present?	26
Are there any fields outside of Phrenology and Orientalism which were discarded as "academic hogwash", and rejected as having meaningfully contributed to intellectual discovery?	24
Tacitus speaks of "savage altars" upon which the victorious Germans sacrificed Roman officers after Teutonberg Forest. How much is known of human sacrifice in early Germanic paganism?	24
How did Romanians, a people who speak a very latinate tongue, become Orthodox Christians when the rest of Romance Europe became Catholic? Did Byzantines suppress Latin Rite liturgies after the Great Schism?	24
We seem to have much more early (ante-nicene) christian writing than sacred texts or commentaries from competing faiths like Manichaeism or Mithraism contemporary to those writers. Was this a matter of Christian civilization taking effort to preserve those texts? How much luck was involved?	23
Are Hadiths unique among archival studies? Do we have comparable cases of people recording, and later fabricating the smallest sayings of a single figure like Muhammad? How does historical analysis of the early Islamic Empire and Muhammad as an individual differ from other fields because of this?	17

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