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What is the current scholarly consensus on the so-called Dorian "invasion"?	19
Today, alternate history is a well established genre with a thriving online community. Did classical or Medieval era writers ever come up with similar "What if...? historical scenarios?	15
To what extent did corruption within the governmental structure of the Roman Empire play within its decline?	14
The info box for the Wikipedia page on the Hundred Years' War shows the Kingdom of Bohemia, a Holy Roman Empire vassal, as an ally of the Valois. However, the article shows no evidence or sources. Is the infobox wrong?	12
When and why did haggling over prices between customers and merchants fade out?	12
According to Wikipedia, in 1293, Kamakura, the capital of the Minamoto bakufu, was hit by an earthquake and tsunami that killed 23,000 people. How much was it a factor in the shogunate's fall 40 year later?	12
There are an estimated 9 to 10 million Presbyterian Christians divided amongst 100 different denominations out of a population of 51.7 million in South Korea. How did a branch of Christianity originating in Scotland become the faith of nearly 1 in 5 South Koreans today?	12
In the introduction to Penguin Classics' translation of the Shang Shu, Martin Palmer makes the case the I Ching/Yi Jing originated as an epic account of the Zhou dynasty's overthrow of the Shang. Is this the conventional approach to it's origins, or is Palmer's claim unorthodox in Sinology?	11
Bela III of Hungary was to succeed Manuel I Komnenos as Byzantine Emperor until the birth of Alexios II in 1169. Bela was set aside due in part to a prophecy refered to as the "AIMA ("blood" in Greek) prophecy". Where did this "prophecy" originate, and what did it predict?	11
How much does Charles the Bold's Burgundian State count as a state in modern, Westphalian terms, versus a personal union such as the Angevin "Empire" or Croatia and Hungary in the Middle Ages?	10

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