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In contemporary online discourse, mass poverty in the Eastern Bloc tends to be blamed on "the flaws of communism" or "destructive American foreign policy", with little middle ground. Which outlook is more accurate?
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What factors enticed the Central Asians, West Africans, and Oceanic peoples to willingly convert to Islam?
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What kind of music was played in 19th century American churches Out West? Did pioneer towns have rudimentary choirs and organs?
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Why did the Slavic migrations of the 7th-9th centuries completely transform the linguistic makeup of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, if the Germanic migrants of the 4th-6th centuries only supplanted the languages of Britain?
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I have seen references to observatories in medieval Damascus and Samarkand. How would they have worked?
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How widespread was child-burning in the Ancient Near East? Was this practice restricted to the Phoenicians and Carthaginians? When did it die out?
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Were Ottoman emperors born to concubines/slaves considered less worthy for rule than emperors born to princesses and noblewomen?
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