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Could someone shed some light on this interaction between Hernan Cortes and Bartolome Las Casas?	17
Beer, is one humanities oldest drinks. Today there's a lot of craft beer with cool names like "Raging Bitch" or "Angry Orchard". Is this a relatively new occurrence? Or do we have records of cool names for beer brands over the past hundred years or so?	17
During World War II, Was there racism towards people of Central Asia in the Red Army? Or was it directed mostly at Jews?	17
Could someone explain this conversation between Bartolome De Las Casas & Hernan Cortes?	16
When and why did it become "good politics" to appeal to the common man in America? After all, wasn't our country's Founding Fathers mostly rich, land owning men? What prompted the shift of power downward?	16
From what I understand, during the Spanish Conquest of the Americas priests would often give native peoples the option of mass conversion, or torture and death. What happened to European Christianity after the death of Jesus that made violence such as that an acceptable means of proselytization?	16
In the aftermath of independence from Great Britain how did America’s courts, specifically the Supreme Court, deal with court cases from when the U.S. was still a colony? Did they respect precedent? Or did they toss it all out and start fresh?	16
In the United States, amphetamines were made a schedule II controlled substance in the early 1970’s due to their addictive nature. Did society experience an “amphetamine epidemic” similar to the opioid one we’re dealing with now?	16
How did the American news media go from censoring the amount of U.S. casualties at a battle like Guadalcanal in World War II to Walter Kronkite saying the Vietnam War was unwinnable within two decades?	16
What was the healthcare system like in the Soviet Union?	16

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