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Was the American Revolutionary war really revolutionary, or just the next step in a slow and cumulative process of change that had been going on for a long time?	3
How did Art Deco fit in with Neoclassical and Modernism arcitecture? As a style, it seems to have elements of both.	3
Why didn't the United States develop a large coal export industry like other coal-rich countries like Australia?	3
What lead to the huge spike in suicides during WWII?	3
Communist eastern bloc countries had large amounts of debt in the soviet period. Was it considered risky to loan money to communist countries? Who was loaning them money?	3
If Sparta wanted to take the Pelopenisan League to war, it had to submit the proposal to the council of the Pelopenisna League, in which all member states theoretically had a vote. How independent was this league in reality? Did they mostly just do what Sparta wanted?	3
The "Laws of the Indies," drew on the ancient Roman ideas of Vitruvius and the Renaissance ideas of Leon Battista Alberti to build "rational cities," from scratch, how they never had been in Europe. They were to be planned, logical, and civilized. How did these planned cities fare?	3
To what degree did stoicism and other ancient philosophies influence Rome's ability to sustain massive casualties in war without surrendering when similar nation-states surrendered after losing a single army, or maybe two.	3
Should we consider the Illiad and the Odyssey to represent what early democratic Greek councils were like, or rather what they evolved away from?	3
How many Germans and French Nazi collaborators made it to Argentina after WWII? What sort of effect did they have on the country? How well did they integrate into the local population?	3

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