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Are there any linguistic ties between Indigenous Siberians and Native Americans?

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I heard once that if Poland wasn't invaded by the Nazi's then it could have completely destroyed Russia as an international superpower, or at lest heavily weakened it due to Jozef Pilsudski's policy of "Prometheism". How accurate is this statement?

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Where was the homeland of early Slavic people? And what caused them to migrate from their homeland to form the multiple Slavic tribes?

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Before the arrival of the Europeans, did anyone in the Mayan or Aztec civilization try to stop human sacrifices?

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Many of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth believed that they where the decedents of the Sarmatians, is there any truth in this?

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Besides the Aztec and Mayan script, where there any other forms of writing, or recording information in Pre-Colombian North and South America? And if so, are there any collections of these works that tell us about Pre-Colombian America?

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How relevant are Marxist ideas in our modern understanding of history?

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How much of a role did John Paul II play in the fall of communism?

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In terms of "aesthetic ideals" in art and architecture Greek and Roman classicism seem to dominate most of European history. However do we know what the aesthetic ideal was for ancient non-Greek and Roman cultures, like the Celts, Slavs and Germanic tribes?

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We might have already heard of the Haudenosaunee Confederation and their complex legal system, but where their other Native American nations that had their own complex systems of government?

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Are there any linguistic ties between Indigenous Siberians and Native Americans?	176
I heard once that if Poland wasn't invaded by the Nazi's then it could have completely destroyed Russia as an international superpower, or at lest heavily weakened it due to Jozef Pilsudski's policy of "Prometheism". How accurate is this statement?	140
Where was the homeland of early Slavic people? And what caused them to migrate from their homeland to form the multiple Slavic tribes?	129
Before the arrival of the Europeans, did anyone in the Mayan or Aztec civilization try to stop human sacrifices?	116
Many of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth believed that they where the decedents of the Sarmatians, is there any truth in this?	105
Besides the Aztec and Mayan script, where there any other forms of writing, or recording information in Pre-Colombian North and South America? And if so, are there any collections of these works that tell us about Pre-Colombian America?	103
How relevant are Marxist ideas in our modern understanding of history?	35
How much of a role did John Paul II play in the fall of communism?	32
In terms of "aesthetic ideals" in art and architecture Greek and Roman classicism seem to dominate most of European history. However do we know what the aesthetic ideal was for ancient non-Greek and Roman cultures, like the Celts, Slavs and Germanic tribes?	31
We might have already heard of the Haudenosaunee Confederation and their complex legal system, but where their other Native American nations that had their own complex systems of government?	13