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Does premodern East or South Asian art have a pastoral tradition and genre?

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[health] Did any civilizations in the premodern world have any understanding of diabetes?

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Does the claim "base-10 systems of measurement are more intuitive" predate the development of the metric system, or were early metric advocates the first to make this claim?

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Thomas Jefferson had an extensive sheet music collection in his library, and historians have identified many of the pieces he owned. Is this true with John Adams? Did he have a large sheet music collection, and do historian know what was in it?

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Did African and Indigenous American musical idioms and practices influence the music produced by European composers in 16th and 17th century Latin America?

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What is the origin of the term “free thinker” and what were the beliefs of the first people to designate themselves or be designated as such?

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In some early modern monarchical courts, it seems that courtiers who aided the king in dressing and ablution may have enjoyed a particularly favored place due to their intimacy with the monarch. How did this square with the idea that gentlemen did not work with their hands?

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In European aristocratic and genteel tradition, "working with one's hands" was a sure sign of low status. By what reasoning did aristocratic practices like making war, helping a monarch dress, or aiding a monarch in their ablutions did not qualify as "working with one's hands?"

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Does an understanding of the basics of human conception predate written history?

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Did African and Indigenous American musical idioms and practices influence the music produced by European composers in 16th and 17th century Latin America?

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Does premodern East or South Asian art have a pastoral tradition and genre?	3	AskHistorians
[health] Did any civilizations in the premodern world have any understanding of diabetes?	3	AskHistorians
Does the claim "base-10 systems of measurement are more intuitive" predate the development of the metric system, or were early metric advocates the first to make this claim?	2	AskHistorians
Thomas Jefferson had an extensive sheet music collection in his library, and historians have identified many of the pieces he owned. Is this true with John Adams? Did he have a large sheet music collection, and do historian know what was in it?	2	AskHistorians
Did African and Indigenous American musical idioms and practices influence the music produced by European composers in 16th and 17th century Latin America?	1	AskHistorians
What is the origin of the term “free thinker” and what were the beliefs of the first people to designate themselves or be designated as such?	1	AskHistorians
In some early modern monarchical courts, it seems that courtiers who aided the king in dressing and ablution may have enjoyed a particularly favored place due to their intimacy with the monarch. How did this square with the idea that gentlemen did not work with their hands?	1	AskHistorians
In European aristocratic and genteel tradition, "working with one's hands" was a sure sign of low status. By what reasoning did aristocratic practices like making war, helping a monarch dress, or aiding a monarch in their ablutions did not qualify as "working with one's hands?"	1	AskHistorians
Does an understanding of the basics of human conception predate written history?	1	AskHistorians
Did African and Indigenous American musical idioms and practices influence the music produced by European composers in 16th and 17th century Latin America?	1	AskHistorians