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A large part of the decline of the Ottoman empire was supposedly in part due to the inheritance system of the sultans. Was there any attempts to reform this system? If so, why didn't they work?

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How would the average alchemist make a living in the Middle Ages?

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[WP] While playing your favorite game, a freak glitch gives one of the game's programs sentience. Unfortunately for you, that program is an NPC you've taken to tormenting for laughs.

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What did the Romans think of the Olympic games?

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([WP]) Marie, Curie, knowing she has only months before cancer claims her life, becomes a uranium dealer to provide for her family.

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[WP] Buddha has hired you to make a movie about his life. The problem is that his people are demanding you make it the most dumbed down child pandering crap imaginable.

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Given the tendencies of the European colonial powers to employ divide and conquer to devastating effect in their endeavors, were there any indigenous groups that notably defied their attempts to internally weakened them?

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How common were attacks on Jewish villages in Europe during the middle ages in times of disaster or following incidents seen as portending calamity?

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What happened to the surviving citizen of Carthage following the destruction of their empire in the third Punic war?

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When and where was trench warfare created? Did it create any stalemates when and if it was used in wars prior to WW1 similar to the quagmire of the western front on a lesser scale?

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A large part of the decline of the Ottoman empire was supposedly in part due to the inheritance system of the sultans. Was there any attempts to reform this system? If so, why didn't they work?	5	AskHistorians
How would the average alchemist make a living in the Middle Ages?	5	AskHistorians
[WP] While playing your favorite game, a freak glitch gives one of the game's programs sentience. Unfortunately for you, that program is an NPC you've taken to tormenting for laughs.	5	WritingPrompts
What did the Romans think of the Olympic games?	4	AskHistorians
([WP]) Marie, Curie, knowing she has only months before cancer claims her life, becomes a uranium dealer to provide for her family.	4	WritingPrompts
[WP] Buddha has hired you to make a movie about his life. The problem is that his people are demanding you make it the most dumbed down child pandering crap imaginable.	4	WritingPrompts
Given the tendencies of the European colonial powers to employ divide and conquer to devastating effect in their endeavors, were there any indigenous groups that notably defied their attempts to internally weakened them?	4	AskHistorians
How common were attacks on Jewish villages in Europe during the middle ages in times of disaster or following incidents seen as portending calamity?	4	AskHistorians
What happened to the surviving citizen of Carthage following the destruction of their empire in the third Punic war?	4	AskHistorians
When and where was trench warfare created? Did it create any stalemates when and if it was used in wars prior to WW1 similar to the quagmire of the western front on a lesser scale?	4	AskHistorians