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Why didn’t Ottomans make marital alliances with other royal families either from eastern or western monarchies like european monarchs?
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Question on ancient Indian militaries and their relative "quality" in comparison to their contemporaries
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Could one argue that the American Founding Fathers declared independence because they were a bunch of rich guys concerned with keeping their money, as opposed to philosophers fighting for universal rights?
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For most of its history France accounted for almost a third of all the European population, however since the French revolution the French population didn't grow, at least not as fast as other European powers, only a 8.6% increase in population from 1871 to 1920 compared to Germany's 60%, why?
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How much worse were the impacts of the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima compared to the conventional firebombing of a similar city?
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Eugene Debbs was imprisoned in 1918 for vocally opposing WWI, and for speaking out on the practice of prosecuting people for opposing the War. When did it become 'legal' in America to vocally oppose wars? Why was this a crime then, and unconstitutional today?
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Italy and Germany both united in the 19th century, during a period of significant pan-nationalist sentiment. Were there other pan-nationalist movements which attempted to unite countries under a shared culture or perceived nationality which we don't often hear about?
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