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How did the Gauls manage to muster so many men during the Gallic War?

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How/why did sailing ships replace oared ships in warfare? Wouldn't oars have an advantage over sails when there was no wind?

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Is there any evidence of or study about scarcity in American men after World War 2 leading to American women having to more compliant to potential partners?

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Why were the Ottomans willing to accept French help during the Crimean War given the relatively recent French conquest of Algeria?

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How did Gorbachev have the power to institute glasnost and perestroika?

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How did leftist intellectuals and politicians in the West justify the political repression in the USSR, China, and other communist countries?

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Certain Abbasid caliphs famously tried to suppress and kill recalcitrant clerics. Was there ever any other attempt by Islamic Caliphs or Sultans to break the power of the 'ulema or Islamic clergy?

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Why did Bowing die out in Europe, but persist in East Asia?

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Why did the American Revolution bankrupt France but not Great Britain?

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According to Wikipedia, the Byzantine encyclopedia the Suda states Nicomachus, Aristotle's father and a physician, was supposedly descended from Asclepius, the god of medicine. Was this an invention of the Suda or part of an ancient tradition?

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How did the Gauls manage to muster so many men during the Gallic War?	2	AskHistorians
How/why did sailing ships replace oared ships in warfare? Wouldn't oars have an advantage over sails when there was no wind?	2	AskHistorians
Is there any evidence of or study about scarcity in American men after World War 2 leading to American women having to more compliant to potential partners?	2	AskHistorians
Why were the Ottomans willing to accept French help during the Crimean War given the relatively recent French conquest of Algeria?	2	AskHistorians
How did Gorbachev have the power to institute glasnost and perestroika?	2	AskHistorians
How did leftist intellectuals and politicians in the West justify the political repression in the USSR, China, and other communist countries?	2	AskHistorians
Certain Abbasid caliphs famously tried to suppress and kill recalcitrant clerics. Was there ever any other attempt by Islamic Caliphs or Sultans to break the power of the 'ulema or Islamic clergy?	2	AskHistorians
Why did Bowing die out in Europe, but persist in East Asia?	2	AskHistorians
Why did the American Revolution bankrupt France but not Great Britain?	2	AskHistorians
According to Wikipedia, the Byzantine encyclopedia the Suda states Nicomachus, Aristotle's father and a physician, was supposedly descended from Asclepius, the god of medicine. Was this an invention of the Suda or part of an ancient tradition?	2	AskHistorians