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Hi newspaper articles at the time characterized the Japanese as looking down on “profligate” white people. How much, if at all, did this crop up in Japanese literature and media?
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How did merchants in the early modern world determine the exchange rate for currencies? Was it based on the value of the metal, the prestige of the country, or a mix of both?
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To acquire capital many postcolonial countries must borrow from the IMF upon the condition of small government small budgets. How did countries under colonialism acquire capital—and were there similar conditions?
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What did former Nazis think of the East German government? Did they grow to appreciate its authoritarianism? Or did they reject it.
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100,000 German peasants were massacred in 1525 during the enclosure movement. The following year, the first slave ship crossed the Atlantic. Did people connect these two trends at the time?
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I read that “ever since Engel v vitale, just about any reference to religion has been excised by schools and textbook publishers.” What exactly was the effect of “Engel,” on school textbooks?
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There are old stories of Geryon’s or Helios’s great herds of cattle in the vicinity of Cadiz. What was the economy like of pre-Phoenician Spain?
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