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Odyssey Tourism - Was There Homeric Tourism in the Ancient World? Did people retrace the steps of their literary heroes?

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What did pre-telescopic scholars think of the lunar maria (“seas”) and other features visible to the naked eye?

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What are some good books on the Harappa civilization and early Indian history (perhaps up through the writing of the early Vedic texts)?

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How did Minoan/Mycenaean traders operate? How did Minoan and Phoenician Palace Economies work?

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What were classical and medieval "academia" like? How have academic traditions, like the European university, developed and differed around the world?

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Were there Multi-City City-States/Polis in Ancient Greece?

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Were Early Egypt and Mesopotamia Really Unaware of Each Other?

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Did Old West surgeons really boil their surgical instruments?

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Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as an elderly single businessman. How common would this have been in 1840s Britain?

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Going back the post-Revolutionary period, American nationalism has been defined by what some have called a "civic religion". How do contemporary scholars see this 'American civic religion' as having evolved over the 20th century?

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Odyssey Tourism - Was There Homeric Tourism in the Ancient World? Did people retrace the steps of their literary heroes?	57
What did pre-telescopic scholars think of the lunar maria (“seas”) and other features visible to the naked eye?	39
What are some good books on the Harappa civilization and early Indian history (perhaps up through the writing of the early Vedic texts)?	22
How did Minoan/Mycenaean traders operate? How did Minoan and Phoenician Palace Economies work?	14
What were classical and medieval "academia" like? How have academic traditions, like the European university, developed and differed around the world?	11
Were there Multi-City City-States/Polis in Ancient Greece?	10
Were Early Egypt and Mesopotamia Really Unaware of Each Other?	9
Did Old West surgeons really boil their surgical instruments?	9
Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as an elderly single businessman. How common would this have been in 1840s Britain?	8
Going back the post-Revolutionary period, American nationalism has been defined by what some have called a "civic religion". How do contemporary scholars see this 'American civic religion' as having evolved over the 20th century?	7