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Did the Royal Navy underperform during the American Revolution?	5
Was corruption a big problem in the early US? Did corruption lessen as time went on?	5
Today is national homemade soup day. Where did the idea of "celebrating" undated things on certain dates come from?	5
Tigranes the Great seems like the only Armenian king to be a major independent power with an considerable empire outside of Armenia. His successors were mostly puppets of the Romans or the Parthians. What made Tigranes stand out?	5
The, "Wealthy Hellas," hypothesis asserts that the ancient Greeks had more income and consumed more goods per capita than the Romans and or surrounding empires and kingdoms. When they were conquered by Rome, their income fell and never recovered until modern times. Why was this?	5
Have military planners ever inadvertently tipped off their enemy by giving an operation a name too close to its actual purpose, such as "Operation Vittles" delivering food aid.	5
After Vologases IV 's surprise invasion of Roman territory captured Edessa and ravaged Syria, the Romans drove the Parthians back and sacked Ctesiphon. Was a peace treaty signed? Did the Romans get any territory or tribute? How did the war end?	5
How much impact did the introduction of two-field crop rotation, and then three-field crop rotation, have on medieval Europe?	5
I'm an average Roman pleb circa 1 A.D. I'd like cook my food and dip my bread in olive oil. Can I afford to do it this with every meal, or is it a special treat for someone of my social class?	5
If I headed to one of ancient Athens's three gymnasia, would I see lots of lower-class people working out there and catching lectures from the philosophers and other teachers? Were the gymnasia mostly for the rich, who had plenty of free time?	5

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