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While the early Ottoman empire was supported by the manpower of Turkic groups, it came to be led by diverse warrior families, including the family of Köse Mihal, which had a Greek Christian origin. Did Byzantium hold resentment towards "one of their own" for helping the rise of the Ottomans?
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How long have humans been at our level of intelligence? If we kidnapped a bunch of babies from 10,000 BC and raised them today, would their IQ be just like ours? 30,000 BC? Or is intelligence such a strong evolutionary factor that we've only been at this level for like 2K years?
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How has only Lebanon's Christian population stayed a majority (even to this day if you include the diaspora) for so long, despite the Islamic conquests?
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What exactly is the origin of Iranian leadership wanting to wipe Israel off the map, why do they specifically have such animosity towards Israel?
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How much truth is there to the idea that the association in Egypt of Coptic Christians with the Mongols is what led to increased persecution of Christians, and the rapid conversion of many of them to Islam in the the 14th century?
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At what point in history would you mark the turning point where Western Europe went from backwater to leapfrogging Eastern Mediterranean civilizations like the Rome/Byzantium/Egypt/Persia in development?
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If the Khazars were an empire predominantly made of people of Turkic origin, why are there so few Turkic people in the area they once occupied?
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What is the earliest timeline that the large scale colonization of the Americas could’ve happened, in terms of the economic and technological resources necessary?
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