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Does Spanish bull-fighting have an unbroken lineage to Roman gladiatorial matches against animals? Or did it begin in a later era?
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Is there a consistent trend in historical empires wherein the conquering dynasty appoints new nobles/elites in its captured provinces then slowly loses central power over those nobles as they grow entrenched and wealthy? If so, was it recognized and were any steps taken to prevent this process?
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Was it possible for a serf or other form of tenant farmer to transfer hereditary land tenancy through dowries? That is, could a peasant family go all Habsburg with good marriages and up monopolizing all the land in a manor despite not having actual title to that land?
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Yazid I is scorned by Muslim historians as the worst Caliph in history for impiety. However, I was just thinking recently - so early in the Islamic conquests, the vast majority of the subject population was non-Muslim Christian and Jewish. Did Yazid's policies actually make sense?
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After the Meiji Restoration when the daimyo and the court nobility were merged, was there any resentment from the former towards the latter at suddenly having regained prominence after being powerless for a millennium?
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A Tunisian fellow once told me that there were families in Tunis that could claim descent from Moriscos expelled from Spain and that they possessed heirlooms and documents dating to the expulsion. Does such material exist and has it been studied?
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I came across a quote today of Augustus saying he would rather be Herod's pig than his son. Some googling traced this to Macrobius' Saturnalia written in the 5th century. Was Macrobius drawing on any earlier writers or was this line an invention of Macrobius?
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