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It may be silly but... Why did Plato and Aristotle not have surnames? Was it common in ancient times?

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Soviet Union fought the housing deficit though popular apartments known as Khrushchyovka. How was the work condition of the builders of these apartments?

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Chinese imperial dynasties are usually linked to Confucianism, did dynasties (or even states) associated with other schools (daoism, legalism, mohism, buddhism...) exist?

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How much of the US was forested before the arrival of Europeans?

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Did Karl Marx see himself as a Jew? What about his contemporaries, did they refer to Marx as a Jew?

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Did people in the 19th century see coal as an imperative to industrialize at a high scale?

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Why did wage-labour become the majority of the workforce?

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Why did the Germans ghosted the counterproposal of Stalin for the Soviet Union join the Axis in the WWII?

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Why is the South America colonization not used as example of early state formation through violence?

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Rousseau said that the wild man lived lonely in the state of nature and started to live in society only after the introduction of private property. How much of it is true?

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It may be silly but... Why did Plato and Aristotle not have surnames? Was it common in ancient times?	144
Soviet Union fought the housing deficit though popular apartments known as Khrushchyovka. How was the work condition of the builders of these apartments?	29
Chinese imperial dynasties are usually linked to Confucianism, did dynasties (or even states) associated with other schools (daoism, legalism, mohism, buddhism...) exist?	10
How much of the US was forested before the arrival of Europeans?	9
Did Karl Marx see himself as a Jew? What about his contemporaries, did they refer to Marx as a Jew?	6
Did people in the 19th century see coal as an imperative to industrialize at a high scale?	5
Why did wage-labour become the majority of the workforce?	5
Why did the Germans ghosted the counterproposal of Stalin for the Soviet Union join the Axis in the WWII?	4
Why is the South America colonization not used as example of early state formation through violence?	3
Rousseau said that the wild man lived lonely in the state of nature and started to live in society only after the introduction of private property. How much of it is true?	3