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TIL that the Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture based in modern day Ukraine was established a millennium before Sumeria and Egypt and had settlements far larger than either of them. How come they are rarely if ever mentioned as an early civilization?

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How did Christianity, which started out as a minor religious cult in Roman Palestine, grow to become the dominant religion in the Roman Empire?

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It is argued in Ibram X. Kendi's "Stamped from the Beginning" that racism has largely been developed top-down, by cultural, political, and economic elites seeking to justify systems which benefit them. How accurate is this in terms of the broader history of racism?

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In, other countries, even if there are two dominant parties, third parties at least have some seat at the table in the form a significant voter base and some form of political representation (often called a two-part plus system). Why is the U.S. so monolithically a two-party system?

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Why has the U.S. historically have a more progressive/liberal middle class and a more conservative working class compared to most other countries?

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Is 'neoliberalism' a meaningful term, or even a real thing?

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The Progressive Party in 1912 was able to get 27% of the popular vote in the Presidential Election, outstripping William Howard Taft's Republican Party, and softly implying that a majority of the GOP's political strength from 1896 to 1912 was driven by a progressive electorate.

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What was the actually political ideology of the late 19th century Republican party? What were the differing factions vying for power within it?

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Where did the PMC, college-educated, high-income, and broadly progressive voter come from?

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Were many northern industrialists sympathetic or outright supportive of the Confederacy? If so, the why?

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TIL that the Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture based in modern day Ukraine was established a millennium before Sumeria and Egypt and had settlements far larger than either of them. How come they are rarely if ever mentioned as an early civilization?	830	AskHistorians
How did Christianity, which started out as a minor religious cult in Roman Palestine, grow to become the dominant religion in the Roman Empire?	38	AskHistorians
It is argued in Ibram X. Kendi's "Stamped from the Beginning" that racism has largely been developed top-down, by cultural, political, and economic elites seeking to justify systems which benefit them. How accurate is this in terms of the broader history of racism?	16	AskHistorians
In, other countries, even if there are two dominant parties, third parties at least have some seat at the table in the form a significant voter base and some form of political representation (often called a two-part plus system). Why is the U.S. so monolithically a two-party system?	15	AskHistorians
Why has the U.S. historically have a more progressive/liberal middle class and a more conservative working class compared to most other countries?	9	AskHistorians
Is 'neoliberalism' a meaningful term, or even a real thing?	5	AskHistorians
The Progressive Party in 1912 was able to get 27% of the popular vote in the Presidential Election, outstripping William Howard Taft's Republican Party, and softly implying that a majority of the GOP's political strength from 1896 to 1912 was driven by a progressive electorate.	3	AskHistorians
What was the actually political ideology of the late 19th century Republican party? What were the differing factions vying for power within it?	3	AskHistorians
Where did the PMC, college-educated, high-income, and broadly progressive voter come from?	3	AskHistorians
Were many northern industrialists sympathetic or outright supportive of the Confederacy? If so, the why?	1	AskHistorians