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It seems that out of all colonial empires, the Spanish were were the most zealous in their proselytization of Christianity and conversion of Native populations. Is this accurate? And if so, why?
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I’m a hardworking Moscow resident whose small, family apartment is currently infested with bedbugs/cockroaches. Who do I call to take care of this problem? Are there state run extermination agencies I can turn to?
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Today, Hawaii is one of the most expensive states in America to live in. Has it always been this way? If not, when and why did it change?
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Aren’t peasants/rural folk ALWAYS migrating to urban areas? Why does this population movement feature so heavily in histories of Europe?
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Many West German intellectuals on the Left excoriated the Bonn Republic for not reckoning with its Nazi past and the crimes of Hitler. Despite that, the Holocaust and the Jews seem conspicuously absent in much of the criticism I’ve read. Was this intentional or am I missing something?
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How big of an impact did germ theory and hospitals have on maternal/infant mortality? How long before we saw an impact?
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Why did the Roman Empire seem more concerned with entertaining its idle citizens, in the form of Colosseum for example, then it’s contemporary Han empire in China?
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