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How did the Soviet Union react when China started creeping toward capitalism in 1978?	22
Were settlers "going native," a significant problem among European colonies in the Americas? Was any attempt made to punish those who joined native communities? Were any policies put in place to dissuade people from "going over to the other side?"	22
Did kingdoms issuing the first metal coins demand payment of taxes in their own coins? If so, how did subsistence farmers pay? If not, wouldn't there be a net loss of precious metals as trade sent the coins out of the kingdom? How did they restock their supply?	22
When the Han dynasty fell in China and the state broke into warring factions for 46 years, did it cause a lot of damage to the Roman's profitable eastern trade routes/the silk road? How much economic impact was there?	22
How did the US get its Chinese "concessions," without a major war against China, and why did it give them up without much of a fight?	22
Did the US founding fathers see themselves as part of a tradition spanning back to the Renaissance and its ideals, or were they more the product of the enlightenment?	22
Medieval scholars at Baghdad's grand library — The House of Wisdom — translated into Arabic the masterworks of Greek philosophy and mathematics, many of them lost in the west. Did Christian or Jewish scholars travel there to recapture their lost intellectual heritage?	22
How important was England's "Royal Society," for spreading the scientific method/ scientific thinking around Europe in the 1600s?	22
In what ways had Hungary changed to allow it to fend off the second Mongolian invasion of 1285, while it had been trounced by the first one in 1241?	22
Nonsexual male touch / physical affection are taboo in western society. Have we always been so standoffish?	21

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