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What religion or religious tradition would have had the most adherents in the Roman Empire at the beginning of the first century AD?

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What concessions, if any, was Imperial Japan willing to make to the United States and/or other allieds powers to avoid war in the lead up to the Pear Harbor attack and the invasion of Southeast Asia?

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Was there a religious component to the "Patriot" / "Loyalist" divide among the inhabitants of the 13 colonies during the time of the Revolutionary War?

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As of the 1st century CE, what would have been the furthest documented community of Jews from Jerusalem?

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Were there ever any state societies centered on the Amur river basin?

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How profitable were the British holdings in India vis-à-vis those in North America in 1775?

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“But in the second half of 1942, against every reasonable expectation, the rump Soviet economy... began to produce larger quantities of tanks, aircraft and artillery than the Germans” How did they manage this?

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Roughly speaking, how does the Jewish corpus of surviving pre-common era (BCE) writings compare in size with the Greek corpus of surviving writings from the same period?

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Who were the earliest voluntary (not enslaved) black African immigrants to the United States of America?

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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?

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What religion or religious tradition would have had the most adherents in the Roman Empire at the beginning of the first century AD?	12
What concessions, if any, was Imperial Japan willing to make to the United States and/or other allieds powers to avoid war in the lead up to the Pear Harbor attack and the invasion of Southeast Asia?	12
Was there a religious component to the "Patriot" / "Loyalist" divide among the inhabitants of the 13 colonies during the time of the Revolutionary War?	12
As of the 1st century CE, what would have been the furthest documented community of Jews from Jerusalem?	11
Were there ever any state societies centered on the Amur river basin?	11
How profitable were the British holdings in India vis-à-vis those in North America in 1775?	10
“But in the second half of 1942, against every reasonable expectation, the rump Soviet economy... began to produce larger quantities of tanks, aircraft and artillery than the Germans” How did they manage this?	10
Roughly speaking, how does the Jewish corpus of surviving pre-common era (BCE) writings compare in size with the Greek corpus of surviving writings from the same period?	10
Who were the earliest voluntary (not enslaved) black African immigrants to the United States of America?	10
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