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Were European bison already rare in Antiquity and Medieval times? Why don't they feature more in old art and literature?	3
At what point did the British monarch make the transition from having some degree of political sway to complete figurehead?	3
A Roman is thrown forward in time - when does it become difficult for him/her to be understood? When did Latin fluency cease to become common among educated classes?	3
Does the Gutasaga have an example of preserved historical records of the Gothic migration in an oral tradition for a thousand years before it was written down or is it cultural backwash from interactions with the rest of Europe?	3
Seljuk, the founder of the Seljuk Empire, had sons named Mikail (Michael), Musa (Moses), Yunus (Jonas) and Yusuf (Joseph). These don't seem to be typical Muslim names - was it possible he was Jewish?	3
From what I read in one of Juan Cole's books, semi-conversion to Judaism as God-fearers was apparently popular in the first few centuries AD. Who were the Jews that were proselytizing to these people? Were they Sadducees, Pharisees, Hellenistic Jews, etc?	3
Why did the US lose the Vietnam War?	3
Did the Jewish Christian sect descended from the James the brother of Jesus' leadership die out from reversions to mainstream Judaism or absorption by Nicene Christianity or some other option?	3
What historical instances are there of new identities (religious or ethnic) leading to the collapse or breakup of states by fracturing shared identities?	3
In the first centuries CE, there were a large population of monotheists that had adopted Jewish beliefs without formally converting to Judaism called 'God-fearers'. At the same time, Neoplatonic paganism was becoming monotheistic. Was there overlap between the God-fearers and the Neoplatonists?	3

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