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Why did the Islamic world not have a political or religious Caliphate to replace the defunct Ottoman Caliphate after World War One?	311
How much control did the Russian Tsar have on Siberia from c.1600-1900s? Did the Russian state face any organised resistance that threatened their rule? How did Russian colonists view the Siberian natives?	209
Why couldn't the Byzantines reconquer all of it's lost territories to the Caliphate when the Abbasids crumbled in the 10th century?	113
Why weren't the British Empire interested in conquering modern day Indonesia from the Dutch during the 18th and 19th centuries?	68
The Swedish Social Democratic Party ruled almost uninterrupted from 1932-1976. What enabled the social democrats to hold on to power for this long? What legacies did the party leave behind for modern Sweden?	46
After the siege of Constantinople (717), why did the frontiers of the Eastern roman empire and the Islamic Caliphate stabilise around the Taurus mountains for the next 200 years?	30
Did Malaysia kick out Singapore from the Union in 1965 or did the Singaporean leadership wanted to break away on their own?	28
Saudi Arabia and Iran were and are brutal theocracies with bad human rights records. But why did Saudi Arabia become and remain an ally of the United States, while Iran became an international pariah by the end of the 20th century?	23
Between 1204 and 1261 the Eastern Roman Empire fragmented into three parts: Nicaea, Trebizond, Epirus. Did the expanding Mongol Empire made diplomatic contact with any of those three? Did the Mongols tried to vassalise any of them?	19
When the Qing dynasty was overthrown in 1912, did anyone in China predict or realise the political unrest and chaos that would happen in the next 40 years?	16

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