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What sort of battle went down in Athens TN in 1946? What were people mad about, and how did US veterans take on the local police and government? Were they armed? How big was the police force arrayed against them?
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Uttering various heresies got people killed, imprisoned, or socially or physically ostracized. Today, most societies have fewer heresies. How did your society of focus "discard," one or more heresies and embrace free speech and debate?
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When Athens restored its democracy after losing the Peloponnesian War and living through the bloody reign of the the Thirty Tyrants, they made some changes to their system of government. What were the aims of these changes? Did they work?
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Pericles claimed Athenians were superior to Spartans in bravery and military ability, despite doing no training for either. Is this a reasonable argument?
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A quadrans was enough to get you into any public Roman bathhouse for a day of working out, sauna use, bathing, and chatting it up. What modern sum of US currency would this be roughly equivalent to?
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Were US presidential and federal elections less relevant for average Americans in earlier eras? Has the government continuously accreted more power, and so became more relevant? Were people less worried about who became president in previous eras because presidents had less power?
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Would the Roman Empire at its height - under Trajan or Hadrian - have been pushed to the brink by the arrival of the Huns?
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Did the Soviets trust East German troops to fight against their "brothers," the West German troops? Did NATO believe West Germany would do its part in a war against the Soviet Union?
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