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How and why did racist pseudoscience shift from favouring people of the Caucasus (hence "Caucasian") in the 18th and 19th centuries, to favouring people of Europe's northern Germanic regions by the early 20th century?

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When is the earliest contemporaneous mention of Sparta's agoge system?

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How and why did the Ottoman court develop a system of racial segregation among its eunuchs, with East Africans serving the harem and Balkan Europeans (enslaved through the devşirme) serving other courtly functions like at the Palace School?

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Did Celtic cultures outside Gaul, Britain, and Ireland have druids too?

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Another one about eunuchs, this time regarding their place in early 20th-century colonial societies where slavery had been banned

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How did the Russian Empire incorporate the social hierarchies of its Asian subject peoples alongside European classes and titles?

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Eunuchs under the British Raj

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Besides Norse longships, were any other pre-modern boats capable of navigating both rivers and ocean/sea?

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Albinism in ancient Rome?

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Do we have specific dates for the specific policies that the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I eventually compiled into the Harem Edicts and other legal codes?

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How and why did racist pseudoscience shift from favouring people of the Caucasus (hence "Caucasian") in the 18th and 19th centuries, to favouring people of Europe's northern Germanic regions by the early 20th century?	10	AskHistorians
When is the earliest contemporaneous mention of Sparta's agoge system?	9	AskHistorians
How and why did the Ottoman court develop a system of racial segregation among its eunuchs, with East Africans serving the harem and Balkan Europeans (enslaved through the devşirme) serving other courtly functions like at the Palace School?	9	AskHistorians
Did Celtic cultures outside Gaul, Britain, and Ireland have druids too?	7	AskHistorians
Another one about eunuchs, this time regarding their place in early 20th-century colonial societies where slavery had been banned	7	AskHistorians
How did the Russian Empire incorporate the social hierarchies of its Asian subject peoples alongside European classes and titles?	7	AskHistorians
Eunuchs under the British Raj	6	AskHistorians
Besides Norse longships, were any other pre-modern boats capable of navigating both rivers and ocean/sea?	5	AskHistorians
Albinism in ancient Rome?	5	AskHistorians
Do we have specific dates for the specific policies that the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I eventually compiled into the Harem Edicts and other legal codes?	5	AskHistorians