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What theories are there for the strict cleavage between the pre-Columbian cultures in Florida and the Caribbean?
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How much more militant were the Assyrians actually compared to other Near East Bronze Age states? Were they genuinely a jingoistic, semi-genocidal empire, or is that later propaganda? If the Assyrians were like this, what conditions led to the rise of those traits in their culture and politics?
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We often hear about the fall of the Greco-Roman Pantheon during the turbulent Christianisation of the Roman Empire, but what about the Egyptian Pantheon? How did it meet its demise into obscurity?
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In 1919 and the following years, was it often that people of the law such as police and the higher-ups of the law would turn a blind eye on criminal activity due to the culprit having an impressive war record? Seeing as though this time period was following the conclusion of WW1.
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What did people in the ancient Middle East (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria etc) think of homosexuality and pederasty?
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In terms of physical appearance and body characteristics, what did an average peasant and average noble person look like during middle ages, in western Europe? Are modern representations of them in media and entertainment industry accurate?
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