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My humanities teacher claims that in prehistory, human society was generally matriarchal, being ruled by priestesses, and that the main religion was mother-earth worship. She claims that this information is being passively covered up by acedemia. Would you consider this accurate?	2706
Why didn't wild cows spread across the US in the same way that wild horses did?	410
How common were pianos on the American frontier? How did they ship them out/source them? Were the iconic "Saloon Pianos" from wild western movies only a thing in train towns where they could be shipped cheaply, or were they a thing in other, more remote towns?	69
Why is it that Cavalry in medieval Europe was dominated by shock cavalry when cavalry in Asian countries was dominated by horse archers?	52
What was combat like on the northern shore of France in ww1? Did the trenches extend all the way to the beaches? Were there any battles there?	50
Are historians worried by the prevalence of pseudo-history and pop-history in the media such as Television?	42
What were the economics of windmills and grain production in the middle ages/early modern period? How advantageous were windmills in terms of labor saved/population supported? Who funded them?	35
Many movies had to make mid-production changes because of the 9/11 attacks. Did anything similar happen with ths fall of the USSR? Were there any cold war movies being made that had to be altered so fit the political climate?	30
What was the cultural memory of the Black Army of the Ukraine in the USSR? Was it acknowledged as being a separate faction of the civil war (and thus likely demonized), or viewed/revised retrospectively as part of the Red Army.	23
What happened to the Germans in areas such as Kaliningrad and western Poland?	17

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