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How was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a commoner, able to secure the fealty of almost all Japanese lords?	13
“In 617, a Tang army under Li Xiaogong (590- 640) entered the Han River valley and inflicted a defeat on the rebel warlord Zhu Can (d. 621), whose army was infamous for massacring and pillaging and for sustaining itself by eating women and children.” This was Tang propoganda right?	13
It’s 1905 and I’m at a lynching of an African American man somewhere in the Deep South. If I looked into the crowd of whites gathered to watch it, what would be the class makeup of them? Would they be middle class? Rich? Or poor?	12
Why was there such an outcry over the lynching of Emmet Till? African Americans his age and younger had been lynched, tortured, and murdered since the end of Reconstruction. Why him and not somebody else in 40's, 30's? or 20's?	12
What was it about South Carolina that made it the central to both the Nullification Crisis and beginning of the Civil War?	12
In Svetlana Alexievich‘s The Unwomanly Face Of War a woman’s husband, who was captured as POW, told her how his political commissar voluntarily committed suicide rather than allow himself to be captured. Was this a common phenomenon among some soldiers? Or a one-off event?	12
Is there any consensus among historians on whether Stalin's "breakdown" after the Germans invaded was real or staged to root out disloyalty among his advisors?	12
What level of support did West German citizens have for the reparation agreements Konrad Adenauer negotiated with Israel? Did he face any political blowback for it?	12
What was the American medical system like before the passing of HIPAA?	12
The U.S. Congress created the Food and Drug Administration in 1906. What problems did they first set their sights on fixing? Were they effective at it? How long did it take?	11

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