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How were the participants in the Haitian revolt able to unite and coordinate despite (I imagine) differences in culture and language, and a large number of enslaved people who had been captive in St. Domingue for less than a year?	13
How were the people of Martinique and the wider French Caribbean affected by the Nazi takeover of France?	13
When and where do latkes (fried potato pancakes) become a part of Jewish foodways in the celebration of Chanukah?	11
2nd attempt: How was Hellenized Judaism distinct from more Orthodox (if that's the right word) Judaism in the period before the Maccabean Revolt?	11
How do scholars of Orientalism and/or Early Modern Japan assess James Clavell's 1975 novel Shogun?	10
Did the rapid destruction of North American Bison populations during the long 19th century produce negative environmental externalities that contemporaries or later historians noted?	10
John Hancock supposedly left a large signature on the Declaration of Independence so that "King George could read it without his spectacles." How was the text disseminated, did the signers sign multiple copies, and would George III have ever held and read a signed copy, spectacles or no?	10
Did any wealthy or influential figures in medieval Europe adopt stances of principled pacifism? What was the relationship between monastic life and pacifism at this time in Europe?	9
Over the course of Mayan history before contact with Europeans, how widespread was access to obsidian? Was it mainly for the wealthy due to the difficulty of acquiring it? Or did lower class people have access to it as well?	9
Did any cultures comment on similarities between humans and monkeys or apes before the development of the theory of evolution?	9

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