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Bill Clinton has often said that his greatest foreign policy failure was inaction during the Rwandan Genocide. But at the time, was there any domestic pressure calling for US intervention or public debate about whether the US should intervene?

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How "populated" were the woods of medieval Europe? On what reality is the image of the secluded cabin in the middle of the forest based?

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Pre-industrial travel would take weeks to get anywhere. What did people do during that time?

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In 1900 there were large, old, and well establish Jewish communities across the Middle East. Today these are basically all gone. What happened to them?

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AskHistorians Master Book List II

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During the Ming Dynasty, "Japanese pirates" (wokou) were a chronic problem. Do we have accounts of them from the Japanese perspective? How did they fit into contemporary Japanese society (eg were they sponsored by daimyo)?

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AMA - Classical Archaeology

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Timelines of women's rights frequently include gaining the right to own property. But there are plenty of accounts of women in the Middle Ages who owned and managed property. Was here a post-Medieval regression in women's rights or is something else going on?

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The AskHistorians Master Book List

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AMA: The Economy of the Ancient Roman Empire

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Bill Clinton has often said that his greatest foreign policy failure was inaction during the Rwandan Genocide. But at the time, was there any domestic pressure calling for US intervention or public debate about whether the US should intervene?	3814
How "populated" were the woods of medieval Europe? On what reality is the image of the secluded cabin in the middle of the forest based?	2617
Pre-industrial travel would take weeks to get anywhere. What did people do during that time?	1153
In 1900 there were large, old, and well establish Jewish communities across the Middle East. Today these are basically all gone. What happened to them?	595
AskHistorians Master Book List II	552
During the Ming Dynasty, "Japanese pirates" (wokou) were a chronic problem. Do we have accounts of them from the Japanese perspective? How did they fit into contemporary Japanese society (eg were they sponsored by daimyo)?	455
AMA - Classical Archaeology	390
Timelines of women's rights frequently include gaining the right to own property. But there are plenty of accounts of women in the Middle Ages who owned and managed property. Was here a post-Medieval regression in women's rights or is something else going on?	313
The AskHistorians Master Book List	309
AMA: The Economy of the Ancient Roman Empire	252