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I'm a Greek peasant in 1453. I have just received word that Constantinople, hundreds of miles away, has been conquered by the Ottomans. How is my life going to change?

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How come the French regime in North Africa was toppled by a popular guerrilla war, while the Romans, Vandals, Umayyads, and Abbasids did not seem to have this problem?

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Could a young man like Nick Carraway really get a high-paying Wall Street job, with very little experience, in the early 1920s?

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Why was Mecca never the capitol of an Islamic empire?

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Did medieval European queens ever serve as diplomats, like modern first ladies? What did queens do all day?

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For what reasons was Christianity so appealing to many South Asian, East Asian, and Sub-Saharan African people in the 20th century?

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Viking-age Iceland had no true villages. Instead, people lived spaced-apart in lone farms. Was this representative of life in Scandinavia at the time?

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How much do we know about the origins of the Basque people and their history before Muslim rule? What are the main theories concerning the Basque?

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Who was the first scholar to practice astronomy, as distinct from astrology?

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Would 10th century Anatolia have been homogeneously Greek?

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I'm a Greek peasant in 1453. I have just received word that Constantinople, hundreds of miles away, has been conquered by the Ottomans. How is my life going to change?	37
How come the French regime in North Africa was toppled by a popular guerrilla war, while the Romans, Vandals, Umayyads, and Abbasids did not seem to have this problem?	37
Could a young man like Nick Carraway really get a high-paying Wall Street job, with very little experience, in the early 1920s?	37
Why was Mecca never the capitol of an Islamic empire?	36
Did medieval European queens ever serve as diplomats, like modern first ladies? What did queens do all day?	36
For what reasons was Christianity so appealing to many South Asian, East Asian, and Sub-Saharan African people in the 20th century?	36
Viking-age Iceland had no true villages. Instead, people lived spaced-apart in lone farms. Was this representative of life in Scandinavia at the time?	36
How much do we know about the origins of the Basque people and their history before Muslim rule? What are the main theories concerning the Basque?	36
Who was the first scholar to practice astronomy, as distinct from astrology?	36
Would 10th century Anatolia have been homogeneously Greek?	35