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When learned European people looked back on Rome in the middle ages did they think the transition from republic to empire was a bad thing or a good thing?

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what Constitutes "impoverished" for a medieval monarch?

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In Fury (Brad Pitt movie about WW2 tanks) the Nazis are shown forcing preadolescent children into service as a last stich attempt to stop the allies invading Germany. Is that based on anything factual?

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When the nazis took the Channel Islands did the British press treat it as any more of a tragedy then when ever they expanded their territory in non British lands?

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I've read a lot of sci-fi stories that compare discovering alien worlds to the discovery of America. Did people in 1490s Europe attach that level of significance to it at the time?

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Back in the days when wars were waged in pitch battle form, was Ramadan ever noted as having any effect on how effective Islamic armies were (IE did missing lunch affect their morale and/or combat ability)?

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Why didn't the English ever try to divide up New England among titled lords like England still was in 17th century?

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Did the Aztecs (or what ever the people who lived in and around Tenochtitlan actually called them selves) have a longer life expectancy than people who lived Europe circa 1450?

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in academic works do historians typically use the term "Iroquois" or "Haudenosaunee"?

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How did Commodore Perry and/or his men communicate with the Japanese when they got there? Did the Japanese have people who could understand English or did the Americans find & take an interpreter somewhere in the west?

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When learned European people looked back on Rome in the middle ages did they think the transition from republic to empire was a bad thing or a good thing?	52
what Constitutes "impoverished" for a medieval monarch?	52
In Fury (Brad Pitt movie about WW2 tanks) the Nazis are shown forcing preadolescent children into service as a last stich attempt to stop the allies invading Germany. Is that based on anything factual?	52
When the nazis took the Channel Islands did the British press treat it as any more of a tragedy then when ever they expanded their territory in non British lands?	52
I've read a lot of sci-fi stories that compare discovering alien worlds to the discovery of America. Did people in 1490s Europe attach that level of significance to it at the time?	52
Back in the days when wars were waged in pitch battle form, was Ramadan ever noted as having any effect on how effective Islamic armies were (IE did missing lunch affect their morale and/or combat ability)?	51
Why didn't the English ever try to divide up New England among titled lords like England still was in 17th century?	51
Did the Aztecs (or what ever the people who lived in and around Tenochtitlan actually called them selves) have a longer life expectancy than people who lived Europe circa 1450?	51
in academic works do historians typically use the term "Iroquois" or "Haudenosaunee"?	51
How did Commodore Perry and/or his men communicate with the Japanese when they got there? Did the Japanese have people who could understand English or did the Americans find & take an interpreter somewhere in the west?	50