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Before the 20th century, did Chinese empires and the various Indian kingdoms and empires know much about each other? I know Zheng He went to Sri Lanka, but did these regions have much of a relationship, aside from trade in SE Asia I guess?	13
The 2nd Amendment is touted as a great defense tool against invasion, by securing the rights to an armed populace and a deterrent to invasion. During the War of 1812, what impact did armed individuals and local militias have on the British invasion of America and the US invasion of Canada?	13
Pres. Trump made the comment that Canada burned down the WH, when CAN was not even a nation. Did Anglo-Canadians have a separate identity from the British at the time? Was anyone in CAN involved in the occupation of DC?	13
How did the military tactics / strategy of both the Ottoman Empire and various European states influence each other in the Early Modern Era?	13
In 1948, how similar was North Korean's government to that of the Soviet Union? And how similar was South Korea's with the United States? How much of Korea's history and culture shaped the creation of those two governments? And how much influence was taken from Japan's rule over the peninsula?	13
If someone went to visit China during the Tang Dynasty, then decide to live there, what were the steps required to be a legal permanent resident (or it's equivalent) at the time? Was this different from say the Han Dynasty's practice, or the later Song Dynasty?	12
How similar and different was the Catholic conversion process in the Philippines from that in New Spain? Was there a lot of syncretic beliefs that are present in the Philippines today that you don't find in other Catholic regions?	12
Reading a 1940 comic, the plot revolves around a colonial administrator traveling into the African jungle to find and destroy a slave market run that is run by Arabs. Were illegal open air slave markets still being run in Africa, decades after much of the world made slavery illegal?	12
Recently Poland has outlawed the term "Polish death camps" with a penalty of up to 3 years in prison. When did this term originate, and how widely has it been used? Was it merely a geographic term used without malice, or was there some sort of agenda to its use?	12
What was opposition to the Immigration Act of 1924 like, the law that pretty much prevented large-scale immigration to the US for a generation? What groups led it, and what were their reasons to try to stop it? And why did they fail to stop it?	12

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