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Was the sense of divinity of the Emperor in Japan truly believed, or was this an idiom lost in translation? What about the topic of divine descent?
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I know that in Islam it is taught that Arabs are descendants of Abraham and Ismael from the bible. My question is are there any pre-Islamic sources- or even pre-Christianity sources- from the Arab world which chronicle this genealogy?
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Can anyone explain the historically significant reason the senate picks judges? Why is it not both houses?
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In the medieval strategy game Crusader Kings 3 in the start date 1066 there is a duchy at the most eastern border of the map in Mongolia that has the "Nestorian" denomination of Christianity. How did Christianity, in particular that denomination, reach a place so far away from core Christian lands?
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