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To what extent was Asian tea drinking an answer to contaminated drinking water?	18
How and why did the term negro get replaced with African American? Martin Luther King Jr. seemed to use it without reservation, but now it seems like it is considered offensive by some.	18
Did the US founding fathers consider adding emergency dictatorships to the constitution, as was so effective in the early Roman Republic?	18
Why did Dante have such a high opinion of the Muslim general Saladin that he did not place him among the damned in hell in his book, "The Inferno"?	17
John Adams wrote that the US constitution was, "made for a moral and religious people," and that it is, "wholly inadequate to the government of any other." What elements of the constitution did he believe were suited for a religious society but not an irreligious one?	17
Did WWI & WWII supply constraints turn combatant populations into "necessity vegetarians?" Was this considered politically untenable?	17
What happened to the Russian Communist Party after the fall of the Soviet Union? Today, Russia is dominated by United Russia. Did the soviets retain much support after the early 1990s?	17
Thomas Aquinas wrote that eating too soon in the day was a form of the deadly sin of gluttony. Did Medieval Europeans pay attention and eschew their sinful breakfasts, or did only members of the church heed him?	17
King Menelaus seems fine with his wife Helen running off with Paris and launching a war that killed thousands. Should we read this as indicative of a permissive - or at least different — moral structure to Mycenaean Greek society?	17
The Diolkos ship trackway in Greece was used from the 5th century B.C. to 700 A.D. before being revived by the Byzantines in the 9th century. Did trade networks really collapse so thoroughly that the trackway wasn't be needed? What caused this collapse?	17

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