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Did the democracies of ancient Greece believe average citizens were capable of understanding and wisely voting on complex policy issues?	1
Classical Music and Symphonic orchestras are seen as appealing to the rich or well-cultured today. Were they ever been seen as the music appealing to common people? If so, how did this perception shift?	1
Was early modern architecture driven in part by a desire to have easy-to clean, airy, and sunny places to live after the horrific 1918 flu pandemic?	1
Would the US founding fathers have identified as liberals?	1
The fledgling Jamestown colony fought a successful four-decade war with the Powhatan Confederacy. Was this as impressive an accomplishment as it seems? Were their small numbers made up for by their technology? Were the Powhatans not really trying to wipe them out?	1
Today it's taken for granted that Cesare Borgia was the son of Pope Alexander VI. Borgia was well known at the time because Alexander appointed him to high church offices and made him leader of the papal armies. But was the connection between the two men openly discussed at the time?	1
Florentine day laborers only had to work three days a week and took the other four off because they were so well paid. Has any similar level of financial abundance for the poorest existed elsewhere in history, or is this a unique accomplishment of the Florentine economy?	1
How nonpartisan has the Congressional budget office generally been, and have their projections been accurate?	1
A quadrans was enough to get you into any public Roman bathhouse for a day of working out, sauna use, bathing, and chatting it up. What modern sum of US currency would this be roughly equivalent to?	1
The UK's military shrank dramatically after WWII. Is this primarily because of the loss of revenue from their lost overseas colonies?	1

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