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How did Ataturk's Turkish language reforms impact the Turkish-speaking minorities of Iraq, Syria and elsewhere? Do their dialects resemble pre-reform Turkish in anyway?	22
What's the deal with Syria's dead cities? Why were they abandoned and why wasn't the area resettled?	22
Wikipedia says that Babylonian and Assyrian records referred to Arabs as Ishmaelites. What does this imply? Was this adopted from Jewish mythology or were Abraham and Ishmael possibly inherited into Jewish/Israelite tradition from earlier proto-Semitic mythology?	20
Was Infanticide legal in Rome?	20
I see a lot of concern anecdotes about the social skills of young children due to te pandemic and it makes me think of homesteaders raising kids out in the middle of nowhere. Did they take any measures to ensure their kids were socialized especially before school age?	20
What allowed Justinian to marry an actress? Not legally - the law was changed to allow it, but was there something about the Late Roman culture that made the concept even conceivable that a law had been passed banning those of high-rank from marrying an actress?	19
During the period when Sarmatianism was popular in Poland-Lithuania, was it commonly understood who the Sarmatians were? Or were they just a random name picked from history?	18
During the Satanic Panic events of the 80s and 90s in the US, what portion of the panicking public actually believed the supposed Satanic rituals were 'real' in supernatural terms? That is, how comparable was it to earlier literal witch-hunts in the belief there were actual magic users?	18
What led to the intellectual end of Western imperialism?	18
Amarpal Singh's book, The First Anglo-Sikh War, claims that the war was instigated by the Sikh leadership to destroy the Sikh army which had become unruly and too expensive to maintain. Is this true? It sounds like the German stab-in-the-back myth.	18

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