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What terms do historians use for non-indigenous, colonized peoples? For example, the Hakka and Hokkien peoples of Taiwan

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The Mexican Revolution is full of political movements named directly after their leaders - Zapatismo/ the Zapatistas, Carrancistas, Maderistas, Villistas, or (less commonly) Orozcistas, Callistas, and Heurtistas. Why is this naming convention so widely used in this time and place?

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What was the reaction in the Soviet Union to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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I’m a Han Chinese woman living in a city of the People’s Republic of China in the mid-80s, and I am pregnant with my second child. What are my options?

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Why didn't Queen Elizabeth II ever meet with Lyndon B Johnson?

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Afro-Caribbean slavery on sugar plantations was notoriously brutal and fatal. If I were, say, a slave on a coffe or indigo plantation in 18th century Saint-Domingue, how different is my experience of slavery?

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Was alcohol genuinely used as a pre-modern anaesthetic? If so, would medical practitioners oversee its administration?

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Are there records of pre-modern compulsive hoarding?

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Why did the 1973 OPEC embargo lead to long lines at gas stations?

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In Mark Mazower's The Balkans, he says that the mountains in the peninsula did not present a barrier to invasion. Is this true? Why?

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What terms do historians use for non-indigenous, colonized peoples? For example, the Hakka and Hokkien peoples of Taiwan	194
The Mexican Revolution is full of political movements named directly after their leaders - Zapatismo/ the Zapatistas, Carrancistas, Maderistas, Villistas, or (less commonly) Orozcistas, Callistas, and Heurtistas. Why is this naming convention so widely used in this time and place?	37
What was the reaction in the Soviet Union to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?	8
I’m a Han Chinese woman living in a city of the People’s Republic of China in the mid-80s, and I am pregnant with my second child. What are my options?	6
Why didn't Queen Elizabeth II ever meet with Lyndon B Johnson?	5
Afro-Caribbean slavery on sugar plantations was notoriously brutal and fatal. If I were, say, a slave on a coffe or indigo plantation in 18th century Saint-Domingue, how different is my experience of slavery?	3
Was alcohol genuinely used as a pre-modern anaesthetic? If so, would medical practitioners oversee its administration?	1
Are there records of pre-modern compulsive hoarding?	1
Why did the 1973 OPEC embargo lead to long lines at gas stations?	1
In Mark Mazower's The Balkans, he says that the mountains in the peninsula did not present a barrier to invasion. Is this true? Why?	1