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Is the Middle Easts popular memory of the grandeur of Cordoba & Granada a modern phenomenon? If not what is the reason it is still invoked frequently considering it has been over 500 years since they fell to the reconquista? What has caused it to either persist or resonate with modern audiences

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Leaders of many post colonial states blamed the free market for bankrupting and impoverishing their countries, on the other hand I remember reading the colonial administration would engineer and control the economies to extract wealth, which does not seem like free market capitalism.

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Note: not American. Rutgers Uni. & Coll W&M being some of the oldest uni's in USA like Brown & Harvard is strange to me. Because all the other old uni's are very famous internationally. Why have they failed to keep up and maintain that same kind of prestige and high rank especially internationally?

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In pop culture its is a trope that the family of the Queen is generally as rich and influential and if not more so than the Royal family and are recognized as the true power even when they are technically under the King in rank. Is there a historical basis for this or was this invented later on?

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Is the Middle Easts popular memory of the grandeur of Cordoba & Granada a modern phenomenon? If not what is the reason it is still invoked frequently considering it has been over 500 years since they fell to the reconquista? What has caused it to either persist or resonate with modern audiences	1
Leaders of many post colonial states blamed the free market for bankrupting and impoverishing their countries, on the other hand I remember reading the colonial administration would engineer and control the economies to extract wealth, which does not seem like free market capitalism.	0
Note: not American. Rutgers Uni. & Coll W&M being some of the oldest uni's in USA like Brown & Harvard is strange to me. Because all the other old uni's are very famous internationally. Why have they failed to keep up and maintain that same kind of prestige and high rank especially internationally?	0
In pop culture its is a trope that the family of the Queen is generally as rich and influential and if not more so than the Royal family and are recognized as the true power even when they are technically under the King in rank. Is there a historical basis for this or was this invented later on?	0