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How was the life of landed nobility in the Horn of Africa in the Middle Ages? What was the typical lifestyle of an Abyssinian nobleman or a Somali Adalite prince?	1258
What do we know of Axumite and Abyssinian naval architecture and ship building? What did their warships look like?	135
Why didn't the Romans annex northern Somalia (Regio Aromatica/Barbaria) considering the wealth/value of the incense and aromatic products the region exported and how they filled Roman treasuries, and the fractious/divided nature of Berberoi (early Somali) society and their mercentile city states?	33
Why were Cushitic nomads and nations like the Somalis, Beja, and the Afar referred to as 'Barbar', 'Berberoi', and 'Berber' by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs? And how far back could this name being used to refer to Northeast Africans be attested to prior to the 1st century AD?	15
Is there any specialization on Papal history? and what historians and works are best regarded in this area?	12
How did Ahmed Gragn and the rest of his Adalite Somali forces administer Abyssinia/Ethiopia during their occupation in the Conquest of Abyssinia in the early 1500's?	11
Anyone familiar with the Great Oromo Migrations (15th-17th CE)?	9
How widespread was Christianity amongst pagan Somali clans in the pre-Islamic era (before the 600's)?	7
Who are the Macrobians of Herotodus? Were they ancestral Somalis or other Cushitic? Nilo-Saharan? Or just a made-up legend?	5
Where is the proto-Afroasiatic homeland? And does Semetic have any detected substratum (Like Sumerian) and hence, be the result of a language shift to Afroasiatic by ancestral proto-Semites?	4

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