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How did the Spanish manage to successfully establish control over Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the conquest of Tenochtitlan if the Tlaxcalans saw the Spanish as auxiliaries in their own war against the Aztecs and had no reason not to see their newly conquered land as rightfully their own?

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The nomadic Timurids, Ottomans, and Manchus managed to hold onto their conquests for many hundreds of years, even into the 1900s in the latter two cases. Why did the Hunnic and Hepthalite empires disintegrate so quickly while the Timurids Ottomans and Manchus survived so long?

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Outside of the seldom used Thompson and M3A1, I've noticed that the United States army doesn't really utilize submachine guns, and when it does, it uses foreign models. Can you explain this American aversion to the SMG?

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In the 20th century, would an Indian from British India have a British passport? Would they have access to similar rights and privileges to Englishmen when traveling abroad?

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What's the historiography behind the Scots supplanting the Picts?

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The Victorian age conjures up images of dirty factory workers toiling in inhuman working conditions for long hours and poverty wages. How much of an improvement was this over living on a farm like their parents and grandparents?

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People often talk about the influence of the West on the East, but what sorts of ideas, technologies, goods, military stuff, etc. was introduced to Europe through non-western countries?

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In 1890s Ethiopia, what did Ethiopia know/think about Italy when it first appeared in the region?

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Why did the Islamic conquests bring the Byzantine Empire to abandon the legion system and adopt the thema system?

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What's up with axes and Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages?

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How did the Spanish manage to successfully establish control over Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the conquest of Tenochtitlan if the Tlaxcalans saw the Spanish as auxiliaries in their own war against the Aztecs and had no reason not to see their newly conquered land as rightfully their own?	12
The nomadic Timurids, Ottomans, and Manchus managed to hold onto their conquests for many hundreds of years, even into the 1900s in the latter two cases. Why did the Hunnic and Hepthalite empires disintegrate so quickly while the Timurids Ottomans and Manchus survived so long?	12
Outside of the seldom used Thompson and M3A1, I've noticed that the United States army doesn't really utilize submachine guns, and when it does, it uses foreign models. Can you explain this American aversion to the SMG?	12
In the 20th century, would an Indian from British India have a British passport? Would they have access to similar rights and privileges to Englishmen when traveling abroad?	12
What's the historiography behind the Scots supplanting the Picts?	12
The Victorian age conjures up images of dirty factory workers toiling in inhuman working conditions for long hours and poverty wages. How much of an improvement was this over living on a farm like their parents and grandparents?	12
People often talk about the influence of the West on the East, but what sorts of ideas, technologies, goods, military stuff, etc. was introduced to Europe through non-western countries?	12
In 1890s Ethiopia, what did Ethiopia know/think about Italy when it first appeared in the region?	12
Why did the Islamic conquests bring the Byzantine Empire to abandon the legion system and adopt the thema system?	11
What's up with axes and Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages?	11