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Modern countries within the old Hasburg Empire have higher degrees of public trust and lower levels of corruption. What did the Hasburg Empire do to foster this good governance?
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Since ships avoided open water and stuck to hugging the coasts in antiquity — both in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic — would there have been a fairly steady stream of ships within hailing distance of shore going by at all hours of the day?
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Italian scholars sought out Greek texts in Constantinople to bring back to Italy. But did the Byzantine Roman scribes preserve Latin texts and retain the ability to speak Latin? Were their libraries stocked with Latin classics? Did the Italians find any "missing," Latin texts alongside the Greek?
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How Mexican did the settlers of prerevolutionary Texas consider themselves? How onerous and in-your-face were the dictates of the Mexican federal government?
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Has there been a significant change in what the broad American public considers appropriate in a children's movie since 1980? If so, are there any good explanations for this change?
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The type of candidates elected to public office or the nature/tone of politics change when women got the right to vote in the United States?
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Before the mass adoption of the metric system, were imperial units mostly used by Anglophone countries? What was the rest of Europe using to measure and weigh?
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