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How complicated was the syntax of Ancient languages? Was it as verbose and refined as it seems? Or is due to the people who translated the inscriptions? (Scope of question: mostly Bronze Age Near-East, and 1st Century BCE Latin)	308
What was the American public's reaction to Reagan's firing of 11k ATC workers in 1981? Did this have any economic impacts to the country? Did it cause flight delays? How did all those airports find new employees all of a sudden (or were the fired members quietly rehired)?	232
Where did Mansa Musa's fortune go? Was his Kingdom Mali a rich/powerful country prior to European colonialism, or were its fortunes were wiped through the years?	219
How have views on orgasms changed in European and African society since ancient times? NSFW	87
Did the Ancient Egyptian religion get generally more complicated as the centuries passed? What do we know of the earliest (known) depictions of Gods and Kings in their art?	75
Why did Egyptology gain popularity at the beginning of the 18th century, and why was it first led by Western scientists and adventurers?	67
How did Koreans perceive race in the 1940s and 50s? Was it similar to the Western view on race? Did a "pure race" person mean a completely Korean, or completely Asian person? Do we know when this view began?	40
Why did anarchism and its accompanying political violence seem to come and go almost inconsequentially in the United States from the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century?	29
How come Chinese culture is thousands of years old and lives in many ways to this day, but Ancient Egyptian culture is... ancient and dead?	28
Nowadays countries are ranked in power based on GDP, PPP and other economical (dare I say capitalist?) metrics. What would have been the metrics of success for a Middle Kingdom Egyptian Pharaoh?	28

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