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The five major episcopal sees included Rome, Constantinople, and Jerusalem - two capitals of the Roman Empire and the original spiritual capital of Christianity. Were the other two sees, Antioch and Alexandria understood to have comparable status to the first three, and if so, on what basis?	12
Why did the French Revolutionary reject religion in favor of reason? If the problem was that they thought the Catholic Church was too in league with the monarchy, why wasn't Protestantism an option?	12
The Byzantines considered themselves Roman. Did medieval Western Europeans believe the Roman Empire, or its Western half, fell in the 5th century? When did this framing develop?	10
My impression is that for much of the Medieval Period cities along the Rhine were most economically powerful places in southern Germany, whereas by the later Middle Ages cities to the East like Ulm and Augsburg had surpassed them. Is this right, and if so, what caused this shift?	9
Can't find a completely neutral way to ask this: Is it unfair to lump WWI Germany with the Nazis of WWII?	9
After the Bohemian Estates elected the Winter King, the Holy Roman Emperor defeated him in battle, regaining the Kingdom of Bohemia but inaugurating the Thirty Years War. Did the Emperor bother making a legal case for overriding the Bohemian's election? If so, what was his argument?	9
How big a factor was the English Civil War in driving immigration to the American colonies? Is it true that defeated royalists (AKA cavaliers) played an outsized role in the early history of Virginia, South Carolina, and Barbados? If so, to what effect?	8
Is there any consistent basis in the naming of ancient and medieval states "empires" instead of kingdoms? Is this usually based on what these states called themselves, or it more a matter of historians' taste?	7
After Julius Caesar took over, did the Roman elite think the Republic would ever return, and did that ever come close to happening?	7
My buddies and I in late 17th Century Southwestern Germany like to crime late at night and escape into the neighboring territory. Assuming we're exceptionally good at robbing, how long can we move from one tiny jurisdiction to another before the law catches up with us?	6

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