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A common line of thinking is that Slavery in Southern USA was unprofitable and that slavery would eventually get phased out. How true or untrue is this view? Where did it originate from?	56
Al-Khwarizmi wrote: "The learned in times which have passed away, and among nations which have ceased to exist". What did the scholars at the time knew about the "nations that ceased to exist"? How far their knowledge extend?	56
Many N. American natives practiced a form of permaculture and it is said that European colonisers were unable to recognise this as farming. Did Europe not have a permaculture tradition or just a tradition of planting crops together?	55
Today IMF has a really bad reputation, especially within the developing world. How deserved is this reputation?	55
Did the Soviet Union know about Global Warming?	54
Were there attempts to reunite the Protestant and Catholic Churches? When did the separation of the Churches came to be accepted?	52
I am a Roman senator in the Republic of considerable status and my eldest son is getting married. What does the ceremony and celebration look like? What kind of people attend it? What kind of music plays and what kind of food is served?	51
I heard that the French Revolution was influenced by a conspiracy theory called ' Pacte de Famine' or 'Famine Pact'. What was this conspiracy theory and what was its history?	50
One of the reasons shown for the violence in the Balkans is that the various ethnicities have been killing each other for hundreds of years. How prevalent was inter-ethnic violence in the pre-Balkanisation Balkans?	50
What made the rifling process for firearms so expensive and time-consuming? What breakthroughs made the process cheaper and faster?	48

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