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When did Europeans cease to see the Ottomans as a threat?

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The earliest part of Roman history (especially the founding of Rome and some of that of the Roman Kingdom) is obviously fictional. At what point does Roman history become reliable?

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Why is Gildas regarded as unreliable?

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In the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes frequently deduces a person's gender from his or her handwriting. How and why would men's and women's handwriting been different in Holmes' era?

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Was Roman Emperor Philip the Arab actually an Arab in the modern sense of the term?

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Were the Gurkhas always a warrior race, or is that reputation a result of extensive military recruitment from them by the British? If the former is the case, how did they become so warlike? If the latter, then why did the British prefer them as soldiers?

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The Ottoman Empire's infamous prohibition of the printing press is widely known and discussed. And yet, I don't know anything about other Muslim societies' reactions to printing. What, if anything, do we know about the opinions of the Safavids or Moghuls, for exams?

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How any why did the Netherlands and Scandinavia become so irreligious?

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Why did the late (after 1774) Ottoman empire's attempts at military modernisation fail so badly?

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When, how and why did anti-Irish sentiment originate amongst the British?

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When did Europeans cease to see the Ottomans as a threat?	5
The earliest part of Roman history (especially the founding of Rome and some of that of the Roman Kingdom) is obviously fictional. At what point does Roman history become reliable?	5
Why is Gildas regarded as unreliable?	5
In the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes frequently deduces a person's gender from his or her handwriting. How and why would men's and women's handwriting been different in Holmes' era?	5
Was Roman Emperor Philip the Arab actually an Arab in the modern sense of the term?	5
Were the Gurkhas always a warrior race, or is that reputation a result of extensive military recruitment from them by the British? If the former is the case, how did they become so warlike? If the latter, then why did the British prefer them as soldiers?	5
The Ottoman Empire's infamous prohibition of the printing press is widely known and discussed. And yet, I don't know anything about other Muslim societies' reactions to printing. What, if anything, do we know about the opinions of the Safavids or Moghuls, for exams?	5
How any why did the Netherlands and Scandinavia become so irreligious?	4
Why did the late (after 1774) Ottoman empire's attempts at military modernisation fail so badly?	4
When, how and why did anti-Irish sentiment originate amongst the British?	4