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As of 1 CE, how would the training, weapons and equipment of a typical Roman legionary compare with those of a typical Han Chinese infantry?	9
Has there ever been a proposal to sell (or even trade) exclaves like Point Roberts or the Northwest Angle to Canada? If there were to be a trade, are there any similar Canadian exclaves or border oddities that are more accessible from the United States than Canada?	9
Would the relatively archer-heavy armies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire have been more effective than heavier infantry primarily armed with melee weapons in their conflicts against the horse-mounted nomads of their eastern frontiers?	8
Does the "Babylonian Captivity" of the inhabitants of Judea have a historical basis?	7
In retrospect, Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union seems like a colossal blunder, but at the time what would have the been some of the rational arguments for this decision among the German high command?	7
But seriously, why do Jews get circumcised?	7
Why was the general flow of slaves mainly south from Europe into the Middle East during the period of roughly 1400 to 1700 rather than vice versa? That is to say, why during this period didn't the Europeans generally buy or otherwise acquire Middle Eastern slaves?	7
Whatever happened to the Alaskan Creoles (the children of Russian promyshlenniki who married Aleutian islanders)? Do they persist as a separate community or cultural tradition in some forgotten corner of Alaska or Siberia?	7
A history professor once told our class that Christianity resulted from an extended dialog between Jewish thought and Greek philosophy - is there any truth to this statement?	6
If, as I understand it, Operation Sea Lion would have basically been a suicide mission in the face of the British Navy, how on earth did Nazi Germany successfully invade Norway?	6

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