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If I were a freedman or peasant at the height of feudalism, and found a dead knight equipped with gear, what were my likely courses of action? Would I have looted the body? Reported it to my liege or sheriff? Done something else?
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After the First Opium War, how did Norway-Sweden force the Treaty of Canton with China? They didn't seem very involved in the region at the time
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Is it true that in Napoleonic Warfare, bayonet charges usually ended up having one side run away before contact?
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How could ordinary people view artwork in the Middle Ages? What were the precedents to art museums in Medieval Europe?
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