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Why did so much wealth accumulate in the Mediterranean's Renaissance trade hubs like Florence, Genoa, Venice, etc, when it apparently did not, to the same degree, in Classical trade hubs like Athens, Alexandria, Rome, etc?	11
What happened to the British commanders who lost the Revolutionary War?	11
The Indus-Sarasvati civilization had roads constructed in geometric patterns, large cities, and bronze tools, but apparently no temples or sacred places, and no iconography or prayer sculptures. Did they have no conception of or belief in god? Was this unusual? Did they "believe" in anything?	11
Why was Pope Gregory X unable to rally Europeans to assist the ailing Crusading States? Had there been some sort of shift that made further crusades less appealing?	11
The Romani attack Harriet Smith in Jane Austen's "Emma," demanding money. Were many Romani roaming England in the early 19th century? Who were they, how did they get to England, and what were they up to?	11
Socrates used philosophy to conclude that he knew nothing. Yet his students, Plato the Academic and Antisthenes the Cynic, went on to found philosophical schools that taught lot of "known things", both in terms of theory and practical living advice. How did they go from nothing to so many ideas?	11
Did the monumental buildings erected by the Romans take up a large part of the state budget?	11
How far back does the the idealization of blond hair and blue eyes go?	11
When US companies set up factories in Europe, how problematic have their lower work-life balance expectations been? Have there been clashes over the more intense "work ethic" expectations, the reduced vacation expectations, etc?	11
When trade routes broke down in Western Europe as the Western Roman Empire fell apart, was there a decline in the spread of disease epidemics through the area?	11

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