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Would meny/any people in the Far East (China, Japan or Korea if that is too vague) have been awar of the existence of the Americas in 1550?
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What were the Nazis planing to do with the populations of territories where most of the population wasn't white?
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did the US government want to fight the Korean and Vietnam wrs just because they viewed preventing to spread of communism as an end in it's self, or did they think there was a more tangible danger?
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You know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. In the middle ages (in England) how unusual would it have been for a farmer to accept something (allegedly) valuable in trade for an animal at market, rather than money?
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In AD500 would zoroastrianism have been the dominate religion in and around the place where Mecca now is?
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Someone once told me that the church supported the Norman invasion or Ireland because they had less power there. Is that true? if "yes" how, how can the church have less than total power over followers lives when they have total discretionary power to excommunicate people?
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When the Romans took Sardinia from the Carthaginians were many/any of the natives still loyal to the Carthage afterwards?
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When did Gladiatorial combat stop being popular entertainment in either the Western or Eastern Roman Empirer?
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When did Japanese historians and archaeologists start teaching and writing about versions of the islands' history that strongly contradict the country’s official mythological history (you know the one where the imperial line goes back to several hundred years BCE & ultimately the gods)?
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