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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
Considering that the American constitution was heavily influenced by England and English law, where did the idea of impeachment come from? There’s no process for impeaching a king or queen is there?	16
Did Israel, due to many of its citizens experience in the Holocaust, take a special interest or leading role in addressing genocide in other countries?	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
Were Hindus taxed more by the Mughal government because they weren’t “people of the book”?	16
How did the U.S. Army wind up short of supplies in the Korean War when World War II was just a few years earlier? Surely there was some supplies leftover?	15
What were relations like betwen Al-Andalus and the Papacy?	15
Racial purity was an important component to both Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. So how did their respective citizens react to occupying African-American soldiers post-World War Two? How did they treat the inevitable mixed race babies that were born during Occupation?	15
What conditions on the ground in 1866 led Tennessee to be the only state of the former Confederacy to ratify the 13th amendment?	15
Suppose I’m an anti-communist subversive in any one of the Warsaw Pact countries prior to 1989. How does my secret police file vary according to decade, and country?	15

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