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Why do we have so much Anglo Saxon literature but despite being much more widely spoken and used, we barely know anything about the Gothic language?

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For many years, the Roman army was dominated by "Illyrians". If Illyrians were so important to Rome, and people still speak Albanian, then why is Albanian such a historically insignificant language?

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Today, "white" under the United States census includes people of North African and Middle Eastern origin. How would a Muslim immigrant from the Ottoman Empire fare in the early 20th century and how would their experience be different from that of a Christian immigrant from the Ottoman Empire?

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Why did many civilisations use slaves in their armies?

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Islam today is a highly text-based religion, where reading and writing are important for having a strong faith. How much would your average medieval Muslim peasant know about Islamic theology in an age where illiteracy is widespread?

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Throughout the Middle Ages, an English dialect (Scots) was used in the Scottish court. Considering that the English largely used French, was Scots usage a local development or was it the result of English influence?

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I saw somewhere that many of the longbowmen and other middle/lower class soldiers in the Hundred Years War volunteered hoping to get rich off of loot. Were they successful?

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We hear a lot about Shaka's Zulu Kingdom and how influential it was, but what was the political climate in the region like at the time Shaka was born? What were the important dynamics and where did the Zulu fit into this whole arrangement?

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Usually we only hear about Greco-Persian relations in the context of Greeks resisting a Persian conquest. How did the Achaemenid Persians view/interact with the Greek city-states?

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During the scramble for africa, how did Ethiopia perceive itself relative to the 'colonized' nations vs the western powers?

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Why do we have so much Anglo Saxon literature but despite being much more widely spoken and used, we barely know anything about the Gothic language?	18
For many years, the Roman army was dominated by "Illyrians". If Illyrians were so important to Rome, and people still speak Albanian, then why is Albanian such a historically insignificant language?	18
Today, "white" under the United States census includes people of North African and Middle Eastern origin. How would a Muslim immigrant from the Ottoman Empire fare in the early 20th century and how would their experience be different from that of a Christian immigrant from the Ottoman Empire?	18
Why did many civilisations use slaves in their armies?	17
Islam today is a highly text-based religion, where reading and writing are important for having a strong faith. How much would your average medieval Muslim peasant know about Islamic theology in an age where illiteracy is widespread?	17
Throughout the Middle Ages, an English dialect (Scots) was used in the Scottish court. Considering that the English largely used French, was Scots usage a local development or was it the result of English influence?	17
I saw somewhere that many of the longbowmen and other middle/lower class soldiers in the Hundred Years War volunteered hoping to get rich off of loot. Were they successful?	17
We hear a lot about Shaka's Zulu Kingdom and how influential it was, but what was the political climate in the region like at the time Shaka was born? What were the important dynamics and where did the Zulu fit into this whole arrangement?	17
Usually we only hear about Greco-Persian relations in the context of Greeks resisting a Persian conquest. How did the Achaemenid Persians view/interact with the Greek city-states?	16
During the scramble for africa, how did Ethiopia perceive itself relative to the 'colonized' nations vs the western powers?	16