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Ancient galleys seem to have functioned like a mix of modern warships, troop landing craft, and bombardment craft. How flexible were they in reality?	8
The Meiji constitution gave a lot of power to the emperor. Emperor Meiji actively wielded this power and played a role in deciding Japanese policy. His heirs, Taishō and Hirohito, seemed to have little power, and acquiesced to the military's desires. Were Taishō and Hirohito impotent? Disinterested?	8
A few months into Teddy Roosevelt's first term, Cecil Spring Rice remarked that "You must always remember that the President is about six." Is the popular view of Roosevelt as a bit nieve and immature fair?	8
After wolves and other predator species were wiped out through much of the United States, wild pigs, and occasionally deer, became a huge problem in the United States. Have Europe and other developed countries seen a similar pattern play out?	8
Did Patricians and Emperors refer to Rome's poor as, "the mob"?	8
1960s-era US kitchens sometimes have garbage compactor appliances installed. Why did people want these?	8
Xenophon wrote a fictionalized biography praising Cyrus the Great, founder of the first Persian Empire. Yet Xenophon was Greek, and the Greeks were inveterate enemies of the Persians. Xenophon himself fought in a Persian civil war. Would it have been weird for him to praise the founder of Persia?	8
The Marquis de Lafayette was beloved in the United States during and after the War of Independence. Are his contributions as a military leader in the Continental Army considered as significant as the support he lent the cause of independence symbolically and philosophically as a patriot from France?	8
Were camels really an effective solution to protecting an army from horse cavalry?	7
Nebraska's Legislature has no house of representatives - Have any advantages or disadvantages arisen from this system to set it apart from the other states with unicameral legislatures?	7

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