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What kind of role did the Barbary Corsairs have in North African society? Who went on these raids? How could they expect to be regarded back home?
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When did people in the former Western Roman Empire decide that the man in Constantinople was not the Roman Emperor and that the empire fell long ago?
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I've heard that Nazi Germany was secretive about the Holocaust because they saw how poorly received their killings of disabled people were. What happened to the disabled people and how were disabled WW1 veterans treated?
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Who in Africa profited off the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and what did they do with the enormous amount of money they made?
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Jews chant from the Torah and Tanakh, and Muslims chant from the Quran. Why didn't this tradition of chanting from holy books carry over into Christianity?
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Roman sources, to my knowledge, usually describe Celtic and Germanic "barbarian" leaders as chiefs and their polities as tribes. Did Germanic and Celtic 'chiefs' and 'tribes' see themselves as such?
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I heard that one of the proposed confederate flags, which had a cross on it, was not adopted out of the concerns of Jewish confederates. What kind of status did Jews hold in the antebellum south?
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