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Were the Mongols really the unstoppable force that they are so often portrait as? Were there any inherent weaknesses in the way the Mongols waged wars?

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The Athenian democracy is considered the first of its kind; were all following democracies modeled after the Athenian example or were there countries/city states that developed a functional democracy without knowing about the Greek model? If there were, then what were the main differences?

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From Mao's point of view, was the Cultural Revolution a success, a failure or something in between?

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When Kublai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty, did he see himself as a Chinese Emperor or a Mongol Khan?

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Was the Byzantine-Sassanid war in the early 7th century the main reason for the fall of the Persian Empire to the Muslim forces or were the Sassanids without a chance to begin with?

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Were the Mongols really the unstoppable force that they are so often portrait as? Were there any inherent weaknesses in the way the Mongols waged wars?	1330
The Athenian democracy is considered the first of its kind; were all following democracies modeled after the Athenian example or were there countries/city states that developed a functional democracy without knowing about the Greek model? If there were, then what were the main differences?	183
From Mao's point of view, was the Cultural Revolution a success, a failure or something in between?	146
When Kublai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty, did he see himself as a Chinese Emperor or a Mongol Khan?	113
Was the Byzantine-Sassanid war in the early 7th century the main reason for the fall of the Persian Empire to the Muslim forces or were the Sassanids without a chance to begin with?	91