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In Yemen in antiquity, there was an extensive irrigation system that collapsed some time before Mohammed. This collapse in turn caused migration north, making Arabia more populated. 2 questions: Where can I find more on the Yemeni irrigation collapse? and How did this migration effect early Islam?
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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?
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To what extent did corruption within the governmental structure of the Roman Empire play within its decline?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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