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Was feuding in the Holy Roman Empire restricted to knights and nobles or could peasants and burgher families end up in extended violent conflicts?	13
Was Roman priesthood an occupation or a role taken on for specific events or rituals? If they were a full time occupation whence did they draw their salaries?	13
How does Mithras fit into Zoroastrianism?	13
How available was milled flour in the Indian subcontinent historically? Did watermills or windmills exist at all?	13
In the TV show Ertrugrul, the Kayi tribe is depicted as being reliant on the sale of finished textiles to cities in order to buy grain. Is this a realistic depiction the economy of a nomadic Turkmen tribe in the 12th century?	12
Was there something peculiar about the British East India Company's ability to get local princes to switch allegiances with offers of pensions and guarantees? Were the British able to effectively dismember other opponents with money or was India unique in this regard?	12
Medieval Jewish writers identified a Roman soldier named Pantera as Jesus's father. The tombstone of such a soldier was found in 19th century Germany. Rather than whether he was Jesus's real dad, was this the same Pantera in the mind of Jewish writers?	12
Reading about the British East India Company's conquest of India, it seems that the Company's major advantage wasn't technological but in using drilled (native or foreign) infantry. But where did Britain adopt drilled infantry tactics from and why hadn't native Indian kingdoms developed drill?	12
The history of the Assassins ends with the sacking of Alamut, but was this actually a significant event? The Assassins weren't distinct from regular Ismailis were they? What was the history of the Ismailis between destruction of Alamut and Aga Khan I?	12
Who were the intermediaries in the medieval and early modern Ottoman Black Sea slave trade? Were the merchants Muslims, or would Greek or Armenian merchants also purchase slaves for resale?	12

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