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I am an American man in 1920 and I want to buy a Ford Model T for my first ever automobile. What kind of license or preparation do I need to buy one and drive freely?

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Asking again, but why did Chinese and Indian armies continue to wear body armor into the 1800s while it was all but extinct in Europe except for some niche heavy cavalrymen by 1700?

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How did the Romans feel about the continued dominance of Greek in the public sphere even after the Romans took over all of the Greek speaking areas?

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How did Chechnya fall into radical Islamism while Bosnia & Herzegovina, despite being under even more direct support by Islamists and Jihadists than Chechnya, stayed a secular state?

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Europa Universalis 4 depicts the Caribbean as one of the most productive regions in the Americas, only rivaled by parts of Mexico and the Andes. Were the tiny islands of the Caribbean really this economically valuable? If so, why?

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In Feudal Japan, did people see themselves as part of an overarching Japanese nation headed by the Emperor (or Shogun) or did they primarily see themselves as subjects of the local daimyo, seeing neighboring (Japanese) people as foreigners?

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How much did the Iroquois Nations know about Europe? Not Europeans, but Europe as a whole?

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When did Italians start identifying as Italian instead of Latin or Roman? When did they begin to see themselves as fundamentally different from the Romans in Constantinople?

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How did Indian and Hindu leaders react to Nazis appropriating their symbols with terms like "Aryan race" and the swastika?

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A major casus belli of the United States for the War of 1812 was the impressment of American merchants into the British Navy. What happened to these seamen, and where do they show up in the historical record?

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I am an American man in 1920 and I want to buy a Ford Model T for my first ever automobile. What kind of license or preparation do I need to buy one and drive freely?	585
Asking again, but why did Chinese and Indian armies continue to wear body armor into the 1800s while it was all but extinct in Europe except for some niche heavy cavalrymen by 1700?	564
How did the Romans feel about the continued dominance of Greek in the public sphere even after the Romans took over all of the Greek speaking areas?	516
How did Chechnya fall into radical Islamism while Bosnia & Herzegovina, despite being under even more direct support by Islamists and Jihadists than Chechnya, stayed a secular state?	505
Europa Universalis 4 depicts the Caribbean as one of the most productive regions in the Americas, only rivaled by parts of Mexico and the Andes. Were the tiny islands of the Caribbean really this economically valuable? If so, why?	464
In Feudal Japan, did people see themselves as part of an overarching Japanese nation headed by the Emperor (or Shogun) or did they primarily see themselves as subjects of the local daimyo, seeing neighboring (Japanese) people as foreigners?	454
How much did the Iroquois Nations know about Europe? Not Europeans, but Europe as a whole?	432
When did Italians start identifying as Italian instead of Latin or Roman? When did they begin to see themselves as fundamentally different from the Romans in Constantinople?	416
How did Indian and Hindu leaders react to Nazis appropriating their symbols with terms like "Aryan race" and the swastika?	414
A major casus belli of the United States for the War of 1812 was the impressment of American merchants into the British Navy. What happened to these seamen, and where do they show up in the historical record?	373