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How did Indian society become sexually so secretive? NSFW

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Why did the descendants of Former African slaves and labourers in the Carribean adopt the names of their former European masters whereas the descendants of the Indian Indentured labourers kept their Indian names?

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Why did Britain choose to colonise The Cape Colony over the more lucrative spice islands in the Dutch East Indies after the Napoleonic War?

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Why casualties in Chinese Civil or Succession Wars far higher than wars between Indian Kingdoms?

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What kind of seige weapons did they use during the Sengoku Jidai in Japan?

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Are the Tatars who originated in the Central Asian steppes and now live in European Russia considered Mongols or Turkic? Or are they categorised separately?

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How did Indian society become sexually so secretive? NSFW	70
Why did the descendants of Former African slaves and labourers in the Carribean adopt the names of their former European masters whereas the descendants of the Indian Indentured labourers kept their Indian names?	9
Why did Britain choose to colonise The Cape Colony over the more lucrative spice islands in the Dutch East Indies after the Napoleonic War?	4
Why casualties in Chinese Civil or Succession Wars far higher than wars between Indian Kingdoms?	2
What kind of seige weapons did they use during the Sengoku Jidai in Japan?	1
Are the Tatars who originated in the Central Asian steppes and now live in European Russia considered Mongols or Turkic? Or are they categorised separately?	1