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What is the event, person, or period on which historians' view has most changed in recent decades because the old prevailing view is now seen as compromised by a Protestant bias?
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Why does Croatia have such a weird shape? Are there overwhelming geographic factors at work, or some arbitrary political decision?
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How common was it ever, in Europe and globally, to prosecute witches for trying to see the future? On what grounds was this considered blasphemous or otherwise morally wrong?
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The Crusader States were destroyed, ruining much of Western Europe's investment of people and resources. How well did Latin Christendom do economically during the. Crusader period?
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Game of Thrones' world is technologically and socially comparable to medieval Europe, its magic is a little like miracles or witchcraft. What aspects of GoT, if any, nevertheless give it away as a set of stories medieval Europeans wouldn't have written?
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Protestants in southern German-speaking lands struggled early, with some being run off. Seems like this would be an even bigger deal in northern German lands when the ruler converted to Lutheranism (or Calvinism) and took everyone else with them. Were these rulers resisted?
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How far east did the United States and the United Kingdom seriously consider negotiating for at the Yalta Conference?
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Before emancipation white Americans took it as a given that African-American slaves could not be employed profitably in colder climates such as Nebraska's. Was there anything to this idea besides prejudicial conjecture about where dark-skinned people "naturally belonged"?
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