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can you give an example of a (well known) philosopher and/or scientist who you think was likely an atheist or agnostic, but who paid lip service to religion for the sake of not challenging their society's expectations and/or laws?
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Suppose you are the Maharaja of an Indian princely state in the 1920s. What do you most likely spend your time doing (IE what are your duties)? What's your opinion of the Indian independence movement likely to be?
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Suppose you're an Englishman in 1717 and you want to travel to Shetland for some reason, like suppose you're a naturalist and want to see the wildlife there. how do you go about finding a ship to take you there?
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When did it become apparent (to western economists at least) that oil would become the most valuable export of the area around the Persian Gulf?
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Suppose you're a typical 17 year old Russian boy living in St Petersburg/Leningrad in 1957. If you were to visit New York, what do you think would surprise you due to the contrast between the reality & what you've been told about the west?
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are there any known cases of slaves been taken to the Americas via the Middle Passage, then later being freed and making their way back to west Africa somehow?
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Roots (the 2016 version atleast) has plot about Kunta Kinte's daughter being befriended by a plantation owners daughter. Is this a plausible situation? In the antebellum south were white children alowed to play with slave children?
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Imagine a Native American tribe living around where Eastern Washington is now in 1717. Even though the area hadn’t been colonised yet what effect (if any) would the presents of Europeans on the continent have on them? Could you tell them from a tribe in the same area in 1414?
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