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Cicero is characterized as being friends with his educated slave and secretary, Tiro. How "friendly" was their relationship? Did Tiro have to call Cicero "master?"	12
Medieval castles are iconic, but were they really superior to the Roman Empire's larger forts?	12
How did "Nader's Raiders," as a civilian organization of law students, gain access to government data in 1968 so it could investigate the Federal Trade Commission and find that it was failing in its duties?	12
Zionists created a homeland for themselves in Isreal. But were there any other realistic locations for their Jewish state? Did any of them come close to seeing fruition?	12
How did the square-based army formations of the Byzantine Macedonian renaissance compare to the square Tercio of the Spanish?	12
What did the Aztec economy look like? Was it a free market? Heavily regulated? Totally planned like the Incas to the South?	12
When Khosrow II of the Sasanid Persians captured Egypt, Palestine and the eastern mediterranean world from the Romans/Byzantines, would he have been aware that his predecessors, the Achaemenid Persians, had lost those same lands to the Romans hundreds of years earlier?	12
Buddha gained thousands of followers during his lifetime and sent them across India to teach. Beyond the trappings of religion, did his followers have a large impact on society? In what ways?	12
Was banditry ever the exception rather than the rule in premodern Europe?	12
Plaek Phibunsongkhram launched a successful military coup against Thailand's popular Monarchy, vastly curtailing its power. How did Phibunsongkhram convince the King to stay a figurehead? Was he angry about losing his power? Did pro-monarchy Thais put up much resistance?	12

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