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Why did the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia last for so long?

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Is Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's narrative of a separate "Dalit religion" and "Hindu religion" accurate?

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What did Roman religion look like before sustained Greek influence? Can we identify any beliefs and traditions peculiar to early Rome and the surrounding region?

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What would medieval language education look like? What were the differences in approach teaching language to children and adults?

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What did Roman religion look like before sustained Greek influence? Can we identify any beliefs and traditions peculiar to early Rome and the surrounding region?

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Cities in medieval Europe were often run by their citizens as "republics". What would such a political system have looked like, and how did they fit into the wider power structures of Europe at the time?

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How much do we actually know about Greek mythology?

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How did pre-modern Chinese react to the differences between subsets and minority groups within the Han ethnicity? Did they conceive of Cantonese, Hokkien, etc. as being fundamentally the same thing with a funny manner of speaking, or did they recognise deeper cultural distinctions?

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In the modern day, it's common for people to lament the loss of natural habitats as a bad thing in and of itself. However, deforestation and habitat loss is certainly nothing new. Was environmentalism a feature of pre-modern thought?

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How much continuity was there between Mycenaean cult practices and their counterparts in Archaic and Classical Greek religion?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia last for so long?	73
Is Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's narrative of a separate "Dalit religion" and "Hindu religion" accurate?	70
What did Roman religion look like before sustained Greek influence? Can we identify any beliefs and traditions peculiar to early Rome and the surrounding region?	66
What would medieval language education look like? What were the differences in approach teaching language to children and adults?	59
What did Roman religion look like before sustained Greek influence? Can we identify any beliefs and traditions peculiar to early Rome and the surrounding region?	58
Cities in medieval Europe were often run by their citizens as "republics". What would such a political system have looked like, and how did they fit into the wider power structures of Europe at the time?	47
How much do we actually know about Greek mythology?	44
How did pre-modern Chinese react to the differences between subsets and minority groups within the Han ethnicity? Did they conceive of Cantonese, Hokkien, etc. as being fundamentally the same thing with a funny manner of speaking, or did they recognise deeper cultural distinctions?	43
In the modern day, it's common for people to lament the loss of natural habitats as a bad thing in and of itself. However, deforestation and habitat loss is certainly nothing new. Was environmentalism a feature of pre-modern thought?	40
How much continuity was there between Mycenaean cult practices and their counterparts in Archaic and Classical Greek religion?	40