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What is the status of the "Great Man Theory" of history among historians? How has postmodern thought affected the theory?
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For a few decades during the first century A.D., the Roman Empire was flooded with a huge variety of weird sex coins. Do we know what brought this on?
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Compared to Russia and the former Soviet states, China had a fairly smooth transition from a planned economy to a market economy. What did they do differently?
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Carl Jasper considered 800 to 200 BC an "Axial Age," during which the world took "a pause for liberty, a deep breath bringing the most lucid consciousness" in China, India and the Mediterranean. How has his theory held up?
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Nazi Germany and Japan were famously fanatical, long enduring casualties that would have caused most nations to capitulate. How unusual was this level of fanaticism historically?
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Seneca was exiled to Corsica for eight years, yet he managed to write multiple letters, Stoic essays, and perhaps some of his very popular plays. Would Seneca have had a nice house? Books, paper, and writing equipment? Did he have any friends to talk to? What would his life have been like?
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The US Navy ambushed Japanese fleets twice in two months at Coral Sea and Midway. Did the Japanese suspect the Americans were listening in on their communications? Did they think the Americans were just lucky or tactically prescient?
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How did slavery become illegal in much of Europe over the course of the middle ages, only to become legal again, at least in the colonial possessions of those European powers, but the late 1400s?
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