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How often WERE peasant revolts in the Middle Ages? Feel free to segregate early middle ages from high middle ages.

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Do historians overfetishize the need for material accuracy when it comes to portrayals in movies and fiction over other forms?

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How were books published and popularized in pre-printing press Rome?

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Are there any notable/famous Chinese now (residing anywhere) that are descendants from the Qing imperial aristocracy, and beneficiaries of that legacy?

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Both China's Three Kingdoms period and the An Lushan rebellion saw a census population decline from about 50 million to 15 million people. Are there any conjectures or consensus on how many were actually deaths, as opposed to households/people falling off the census radar?

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They always say history's written by the winners, but it seems in modern times this isn't always the case. What are some notable exceptions?

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What were the physical contents of a royal treasury in the medieval era?

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Is there a contemporary landscape one could compare ancient Sumerian Mesopotamia to?

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Have less documents from the high Byzantine era survived into the modern day, compared to western european medieval documents?

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Was the Ottoman Valide Sultan (Queen Mother) title/role borrowed from the Roman/Byzantine Augusta?

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How often WERE peasant revolts in the Middle Ages? Feel free to segregate early middle ages from high middle ages.	17
Do historians overfetishize the need for material accuracy when it comes to portrayals in movies and fiction over other forms?	17
How were books published and popularized in pre-printing press Rome?	17
Are there any notable/famous Chinese now (residing anywhere) that are descendants from the Qing imperial aristocracy, and beneficiaries of that legacy?	16
Both China's Three Kingdoms period and the An Lushan rebellion saw a census population decline from about 50 million to 15 million people. Are there any conjectures or consensus on how many were actually deaths, as opposed to households/people falling off the census radar?	15
They always say history's written by the winners, but it seems in modern times this isn't always the case. What are some notable exceptions?	14
What were the physical contents of a royal treasury in the medieval era?	14
Is there a contemporary landscape one could compare ancient Sumerian Mesopotamia to?	14
Have less documents from the high Byzantine era survived into the modern day, compared to western european medieval documents?	14
Was the Ottoman Valide Sultan (Queen Mother) title/role borrowed from the Roman/Byzantine Augusta?	14