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The two major rebellions of the Tang Dynasty were the An Lushan and Huang Chao rebellions. One resulted in the end of the Tang Golden Age, while the other resulted in the near-destruction of the Tang, China's aristocracy and foreign merchants. Why is it the former seems to be more well-known online?	32
What accounts for the differences between Macau and Hong Kong? Size or colonial culture?	30
What's the state on the idea that trade existed between Polynesians and pre-Columbian natives on the South American coast? Has there been more evidence to support the theories like the spread of chickens and sweet potatoes? Or have the theories been found wanting?	29
France made Algeria part of the metropole, which I figure is the reason the war was so bitter in the 1950s-60s compared to her other North African colonies. The protectorates came later with fewer colonists, but did France plan on making both Tunisia & Morocco part of the metropole like Algeria?	29
How are the "White Rajahs" remembered today in Sarawak, and in Malaysia as a whole? Are attitudes today generally positive, neutral or negative?	29
It seems that in ancient Athens women had few rights, and in Sparta they had a substantially more rights. How diverse was the situation for women in ancient Greek culture, and did this change throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods?	29
Mark Twain wrote that much of the American South's peculiar nature could just as well be laid at the feet of Sir Walter Scott's medieval romances as it is with slavery. How big of an influence was Sir Walter Scott on American (particularly Southern) culture, and how has it persisted?	28
How did outside realms or kings respond to the Nyköping Banquet in Sweden? Was there a worry that kings killing siblings would be openly tolerated, especially in taking in an an exiled king who had treacherously killed his own dukes / brothers?	28
Walt Whitman wrote: 'The secession cause had numerically just as many sympathizers in the free as in the rebel States.' While I don't think polling data exists, was there a large degree of sympathy for the cause of secession in the North before Ft. Sumter? Or after?	28
London's work "The People of the Abyss" in 1903 describes the horrendous living conditions of London's working poor in East End, with people marginalized in extreme levels of poverty in the world's richest city. When and how did change come for the better for those who lived in East End?	28

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