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Certain English and Scottish ballads such as False Knight on the Road (Child #3) have their analogue in Scandinavian folk music. Did bilingual sailors take these songs across the North Sea, or did the Anglo-Saxons bring these song traditions to England from Scandinavia?
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To what extent did an Arab diaspora predate the spread of Islam? Did communities of Arabic-speaking merchants, tradespeople, or mercenaries exist in the Roman Empire, Persia, East Africa, and pre-Islamic India and Southeast Asia?
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How did Europeans respond to passage of the 15th amendment and sudden enfranchisement of African Americans?
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King Henry I of France married a Russian princess in the mid-11th century. How would such a marriage have been arranged, given the great distance between their lands? How much would 11th century Franks, Germans, and Anglo-Saxons have known about Russia?
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