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When did the late Romans/Byzantines stop building fortified camps every night while they were on campaign? Why would they give up this strategy, which earlier generals had praised?
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How did the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese come to pass when the UK had a legal claim to much of the island?
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Was Abraham Lincoln a good lawyer? Was he as effective at convincing juries using the same relentless logic and clarity displayed in political speeches such as his Peoria speech?
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In, "The Art of Not Being Governed," historian James C. Scott suggests the mountainous upland regions of Asia are peopled by refugees fleeing forced integration into powerful states, and continuously resisted state formation, taxes, laws, and forced labor, and "progress." Is this correct?
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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?
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Xenophon was elected to take command of the 10,000 Greeks stranded in Persian territory after all the high ranking officers were massacred in a trap. How firmly would his control of his soldiers have been as an elected officer? Were there other officers competing for command?
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To what degree did Italians think of themselves as a united group before the country's unification in the 19th century?
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Have historians estimated how many philosophers were running around the ancient Roman Empire? Some ancient writings make it seem like there were plagues of Cynics in the streets of major cities.
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