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Did Thomas Jefferson harm diplomatic relations with Italy after he smuggled rice out of the country to the United States? Was there any blowback?	1
Early European colonists of continental America reported a shocking abundance of fish in the Atlantic. Was this the result of ecosystem recovery following the mass deaths of Native Americans due to disease ? Or did Native American ideology lead to better ecosystem balance?	1
Latin and Greek libraries were common in Roman cities. Would average plebeians with few resources be able to enter these libraries and read? Would there be gatekeepers keeping out the 'riff-raff?" Who were the libraries meant to serve, and what knowledge were they designed to impart?	1
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine claims every man in America and Europe thought England wouldn't be able to keep control of the 13 colonies forever. People differed only in how much time would have to pass before the colonies couldn't be restrained anymore. Is this an accurate claim?	1
Gulliver's Travels features people who want to war with each other over conflicting views on how to open eggs. What was Swift satirizing in 18th century society in this depiction?	1
At the end of the Vietnam war the US negotiated a peace treaty between Vietnam and the United States before withdrawing. Why was this seen as necessary? What did the treaty accomplish or avoid?	1
Thomas Paine divides the American colonists at the time of the revolution into whigs and torries. What did these divisions signify, and how did they relate to the English political parties of the times?	1
The Roman baths in Bath, England, can't be used because the water is contaminated with a brain-eating amoeba. Would this have been a continuous issue in the Roman era? How did the waters become contaminated?	1
Did Rome have trouble finding willing colonists to populate its provinces in Northern and Central Europe? How "colonized" did Dacia, for instance, end up being before the Romans withdrew?	1
How should we understand democracy in the Novgorod Republic? How much of the public participated? How did the government work?	1

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