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At the end of the Vietnam war the US negotiated a peace treaty between Vietnam and the United States before withdrawing. Why was this seen as necessary? What did the treaty accomplish or avoid?
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Thomas Paine divides the American colonists at the time of the revolution into whigs and torries. What did these divisions signify, and how did they relate to the English political parties of the times?
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The Roman baths in Bath, England, can't be used because the water is contaminated with a brain-eating amoeba. Would this have been a continuous issue in the Roman era? How did the waters become contaminated?
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Did Rome have trouble finding willing colonists to populate its provinces in Northern and Central Europe? How "colonized" did Dacia, for instance, end up being before the Romans withdrew?
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How should we understand democracy in the Novgorod Republic? How much of the public participated? How did the government work?
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The word "housewife," was already in use in the 1750s, such as in Martha Bradley's cookbook, "The British Housewife." Where did the term come from? Was it an attempt to make a class differentiation? How old is the term?
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The trope of Crusaders bringing ideas and valuable things back from the holy land is common. But how impactful was this mass sojourn in the Middle East on Europe? Was there much tangible change? And how did the returning crusaders haul spices and other valuables back with them?
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Thomas Cromwell banned the eating of Christmas Pudding and festive holiday merriment like carols and carousing. He wanted people to fast and pray instead of feast and make merry. Did anyone listen to him? Were there five very unfestive Christmases? Did things roar back after the restoration?
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Google's Bard tells me that the GDP of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 13th century was an estimated 2.66 million hyperpyra, or $13.3 billion in today's dollars. That's more than England ($1.3 billion), France ($5 billion), or the Holy Roman Empire ($4.4 billion). Was Jerusalem really this rich?
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