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Why was it necessary for the Pope to send missionaries to Anglo-Saxon England? What happened to the native Christian clergy of Roman Britain? Did Christianity vanish in Britain or did surviving Christian clergy/monks make no effort at converting the Anglo-Saxon rulers?
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How did restaurants cope without alcohol for cooking purposes during Prohibition? Were French restaurants allowed to import wine for cooking?
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When did Byzantine culture begin to think of the Western Roman provinces as independent kingdoms as opposed to occupied provinces to which it still had de jure rights or claims?
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Reading Spanish and Portuguese accounts of their trips to India, they seem to regard the Arab traders as being foes like the Moors they had defeated in the Reconquista. How tuned in were Arab traders in the Indian ocean to developments in the West i.e. the fall of Grenada? Would they have cared?
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Why does rice grow so well in flooded conditions? Was its ancestor a semi-aquatic plant or is it a result of human breeding?
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If slavery in Japan was banned by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (according to Wikipedia), then what was the legal status of girls sold by their families to brothels, panders or pimps? What transaction actually took place when money was exchanged if it wasn't transfer of human property?
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During the Roman Empire, guys with armies in the provinces liked to declare themselves Roman Emperor. Charlemagne was a guy with an army from a former Roman province that declared himself Roman Emperor. Is there continuity there? Was Charlemagne drawing on history for his legitimacy?
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