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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?

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Was the extinction of megafauna at the end of the Paleolithic a major force in the transition to agriculture?

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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?

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Did the Broccoli family of Carrera, Italy invent the vegetable broccoli or were their Calabrian branch pivotal in its transfer to the USA?

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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?

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Was the collapse of Mycenaean civilization referenced at all in Classical Greece? And other assorted Greek questions.

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Were English country houses larger and more extravagant than that of nobility in other countries? If so, was there a link between the size of the country houses and the British empire? To what degree did the English aristocracy benefit from the empire as opposed to merchants and bureaucrats?

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Are the Holy Leagues against the Ottomans continuous with the Crusades? If so, why aren't they considered numbered Crusades?

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Who were the intended audiences of Mughal-era Persian-language cookbooks? That is, who would have been in a position to be both literate in Persian and be directing cooking in a noble or royal household?

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In the Turkish television series Ertuğrul, the Kayi tribe is depicted as being reliant on the production of finished textile products by the tribe's women to procure coin and grain to survive the winters. Is this a realistic depiction of 13th century Turkmen tribal economies?

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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	AskHistorians
Was the extinction of megafauna at the end of the Paleolithic a major force in the transition to agriculture?	11	askscience
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	AskHistorians
Did the Broccoli family of Carrera, Italy invent the vegetable broccoli or were their Calabrian branch pivotal in its transfer to the USA?	11	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Was the collapse of Mycenaean civilization referenced at all in Classical Greece? And other assorted Greek questions.	11	AskHistorians
Were English country houses larger and more extravagant than that of nobility in other countries? If so, was there a link between the size of the country houses and the British empire? To what degree did the English aristocracy benefit from the empire as opposed to merchants and bureaucrats?	11	AskHistorians
Are the Holy Leagues against the Ottomans continuous with the Crusades? If so, why aren't they considered numbered Crusades?	11	AskHistorians
Who were the intended audiences of Mughal-era Persian-language cookbooks? That is, who would have been in a position to be both literate in Persian and be directing cooking in a noble or royal household?	10	AskHistorians
In the Turkish television series Ertuğrul, the Kayi tribe is depicted as being reliant on the production of finished textile products by the tribe's women to procure coin and grain to survive the winters. Is this a realistic depiction of 13th century Turkmen tribal economies?	10	AskHistorians