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Why did it take until 1858, after the Sepoy rebellion, for the British to transfer control of India from the British East India Company to the crown?

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What was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's role in the Greek genocide and Turkification of Greeks in general?

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What was the relationship like between the communist/socialist parties of America and black Americans in the 1930's?

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How successful were Mussolini's policies before he was evicted from office? Is it fair to say that the onset of WW2 prevented any long term success?

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I was reading American Cookery (1798) when I came across a strange passage around keeping fish, warning the reader that it will not become spoiled "if kept from heat and the moon, which had much more injurious effect than the sun." Did people at the time believe the moons light to be harmful?

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It's the year 1550 in the Ottoman Capital of Constantinople. I am a wealthy Orthodox Greek merchant and my son, Theodosius has just turned of age to begin his formal education and I want him to follow in my steps. Which schools would I send him to?

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What happened to the Italian settlers of territories like Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Dodecanese Islands?

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Who supplied weapons to the Boer Republics?

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I heard someone make the claim that in WW2 the allies were complicit in the Holocaust because "They could've bombed the death camps but chose not to." How much of this is grounded in reality and how much is plain revisionism?

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In the medieval period a large and prosperous Jewish community lived their daily lives, but how were they governed? Did a local christian noble watch over the landed and unlanded farmers? Or did they live outside of the influence of feudalism?

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Why did it take until 1858, after the Sepoy rebellion, for the British to transfer control of India from the British East India Company to the crown?	19	AskHistorians
What was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's role in the Greek genocide and Turkification of Greeks in general?	17	AskHistorians
What was the relationship like between the communist/socialist parties of America and black Americans in the 1930's?	15	AskHistorians
How successful were Mussolini's policies before he was evicted from office? Is it fair to say that the onset of WW2 prevented any long term success?	12	AskHistorians
I was reading American Cookery (1798) when I came across a strange passage around keeping fish, warning the reader that it will not become spoiled "if kept from heat and the moon, which had much more injurious effect than the sun." Did people at the time believe the moons light to be harmful?	11	AskHistorians
It's the year 1550 in the Ottoman Capital of Constantinople. I am a wealthy Orthodox Greek merchant and my son, Theodosius has just turned of age to begin his formal education and I want him to follow in my steps. Which schools would I send him to?	10	AskHistorians
What happened to the Italian settlers of territories like Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Dodecanese Islands?	9	AskHistorians
Who supplied weapons to the Boer Republics?	9	AskHistorians
I heard someone make the claim that in WW2 the allies were complicit in the Holocaust because "They could've bombed the death camps but chose not to." How much of this is grounded in reality and how much is plain revisionism?	8	AskHistorians
In the medieval period a large and prosperous Jewish community lived their daily lives, but how were they governed? Did a local christian noble watch over the landed and unlanded farmers? Or did they live outside of the influence of feudalism?	8	AskHistorians