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Although the British Empire legally outlawed slavery, was there de facto slavery in British Africa and British India?	7
How did rural immigrants to the United States, such as Norwegian Americans, Swedish Americans, many German Americans, and the like assimilate so quickly to speaking English, when they lived in such low population density areas?	6
After Alexander conquered Persia, tens of thousands of Greeks settled in the Near East. They were so influential that centuries later, the Parthians and early Sassanids adopted Greek as their administrative language. But by the Arab conquest, there were no Persian Greeks. What happened to them?	6
There were a multitude of famous Russian painters and novelists from the end of the 19th to the early 20th century--what happened to them after the Russian Revolution? As aristocrats, were they killed off?	6
After the American Revolution, how quickly did the settlers of the former Thirteen Colonies begin to identify themselves as Americans instead of Englishmen?	6
Considering the papermaking and printing techniques of the time, how accessible were books in the US in the 1880s and 1890s?	6
During or before WW2, when did the United States stop trading with Nazi Germany?	6
How did the Empire of Japan turn Manchukuo into a settler colony? What did the native Manchurians and Han Chinese think about the Japanese settlements?	6
What was the standard of living and life expectancy for peasants in the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th and 10th centuries?	5
Over the decades of the 1620s-1760s, how did English (later British) support for colonization of the Thirteen Colonies change? For example how did the ideas of charters evolve, and how many settlers were sponsored by the crown as opposed to choosing to immigrate to the 13 Colonies?	4

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