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What are the origins of playing cards?

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What did Soviet textbooks say about the United States? Nazi German textbooks?

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How did Islamic armies take the walled cities of the Eastern Roman Empire in the seventh century?

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Why did the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) economy collapse during the reign of Andronikos II?

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How did the Soviet Union absorb such large manpower losses during the Second World War?

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Was the Komnenian Restoration a phantom recovery?

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How did medieval cartographers know where borders were in any kingdom?

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Why are Jews such a popular scapegoat relative to the size of their population?

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Why did the dynatoi families gradually gain control of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries? Why were these families not more visible in the time of Emperor Justinian or Constantine V?

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Why did the Burgundians defect to the French side in the Hundred Years' War?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What are the origins of playing cards?	584
What did Soviet textbooks say about the United States? Nazi German textbooks?	179
How did Islamic armies take the walled cities of the Eastern Roman Empire in the seventh century?	27
Why did the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) economy collapse during the reign of Andronikos II?	23
How did the Soviet Union absorb such large manpower losses during the Second World War?	9
Was the Komnenian Restoration a phantom recovery?	7
How did medieval cartographers know where borders were in any kingdom?	5
Why are Jews such a popular scapegoat relative to the size of their population?	3
Why did the dynatoi families gradually gain control of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries? Why were these families not more visible in the time of Emperor Justinian or Constantine V?	3
Why did the Burgundians defect to the French side in the Hundred Years' War?	2