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According to many, Nixon's aide John Erlichman admitted that the war on drugs was done in part to oppress and subjugate black people. Is this quote accepted as historical fact?	5607
For hundreds of years, the Trojan war / Illiad / City of Troy were thought to be ancient myths and fiction. Then in the 1870s they actually discovered the ancient city of Troy. What was the reaction to this among historians and was there a lot of disbelief/push back?	168
Why did the Nomadic Steppe people practice artificial cranial deformation (i.e elongated heads) ?	56
Why did the Steppe Nomads practice artificial cranial deformation?	26
Regarding nomads/tribal people in history, it seems like almost all of them had a law of "hospitality" or something along the lines of feeding and sheltering strangers. How did this look in practice? Would they really feed and shelter anyone?	20
Has anything in the Vedas or Hindu scripture been confirmed or corroborated by archaeology or any other outside sources?	11
Why did the Steppe Nomads practice artificial cranial deformation?	6
Roy Cohn and J Edgar Hoover both prosecuted people for being gay and tried to tie homosexuality to communism. It has been rumored that Hoover and Cohn were THEMSELVES gay or bisexual. How true is this?	2
All throughout antiquity and the Roman empire it seems like the historians constantly alluded to the "East" (India, Mesopotamia, Central Asia etc.) as the area with wealth. When did Western Europe or the European civilizations surpass the Asian civilizations in wealth?	2
What is the relationship/influence of Zoroastrianism and the Bible? Was Zoroastrianism the first monotheistic religion?	2

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