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If the one of the leading causes of anti-Umayyad sentiment leading up to the Abbasid revolution was the Umayyads continuing to levy the jizya on converts, how did the Abbasids make up the difference in receipts? Did they institute new taxes or was their tax income lower compared to the Umayyads?	11
Why were the armies of the late Middle Ages so small relative to the population of the countries?	11
Are the Holy Leagues against the Ottomans continuous with the Crusades? If so, why aren't they considered numbered Crusades?	11
Did the Broccoli family of Carrera, Italy invent the vegetable broccoli or were their Calabrian branch pivotal in its transfer to the USA?	11
Timurid princes were sent to be raised by a military governor or noble called a beg atäkä. Seljuk princes were sent to be raised by a similar atabegs. Does the Timurid practice descend from the Seljuk, or do both practices descend from some earlier custom?	11
Apparently the first person to recognize Persian was related to the Indic languages was Khan i-Arzu in 18th century. How was this noticed so late given the obvious similarities? Was there something missing from the conceptual framework of Persianate scholarship that prevented anyone noting it?	11
A lot of modern restaurant dishes from the Indian subcontinent were developed in Indo-Islamic royal or noble kitchens. How exactly did these filter down to or spread to popular cuisine?	11
Of all the deified Pharaohs, why was it that Amenhotep I's cult managed to gain enough prominence to get its own month in the Egyptian calendar? Did it have better sticking power than other Pharaonic cults? Were there other Pharaonic cults that were more prominent?	11
Was the collapse of Mycenaean civilization referenced at all in Classical Greece? And other assorted Greek questions.	11
I've read in several books that the British created the zamindar class in the Indian subcontinent by misunderstanding jagir grants (the right to collect revenue from an area) as meaning the jagirdar in question was the landowner. A jagir doesn't seem like a difficult concept to grasp. Is it true?	11

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