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What were the native-born Latins/Franks in the Crusader States like? Were they carbon copies of their European brethren? Or was there any 'oriental' or Levantine influence on how they behaved and thought?

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Given it had the support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, how serious a threat was the 1903 "Plan III" by the Imperial German Navy to invade the United States?

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Franconia is a large, wealthy, populous entity with its own dialect and ethnic identity, but is currently appended to Bavaria. Why has it never been constituted as a separate state?

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Is it possible to estimate how many casualties there were resulting from the civil wars of the late Roman Republic?

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Did Augustus ever have to contend with radical or counter-revolutionary Republican sentiment among ordinary citizens?

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Hannibal spent long stretches of his adult life in Spain, Italy, Carthage and the Seleucid Empire, and commanded distinctly multi-ethnic armies. Would he and his entourage have had to be multilingual? Was there a common tongue in the era before the rise of Roman hegemony?

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What were the native-born Latins/Franks in the Crusader States like? Were they carbon copies of their European brethren? Or was there any 'oriental' or Levantine influence on how they behaved and thought?	10
Given it had the support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, how serious a threat was the 1903 "Plan III" by the Imperial German Navy to invade the United States?	5
Franconia is a large, wealthy, populous entity with its own dialect and ethnic identity, but is currently appended to Bavaria. Why has it never been constituted as a separate state?	3
Is it possible to estimate how many casualties there were resulting from the civil wars of the late Roman Republic?	2
Did Augustus ever have to contend with radical or counter-revolutionary Republican sentiment among ordinary citizens?	1
Hannibal spent long stretches of his adult life in Spain, Italy, Carthage and the Seleucid Empire, and commanded distinctly multi-ethnic armies. Would he and his entourage have had to be multilingual? Was there a common tongue in the era before the rise of Roman hegemony?	1