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How accurate are estimates like 5000 baiji living in the yangze in the 3rd BCE? Did ancient people understand sampling?

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Who were the indigenous peoples encountered by viking explorers? How were they affected by the encounter?

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Where was Thinis? Why don't we know where it was?

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What type of resistance would Julias Caesar have run into if he traveled around the black sea after conquering Persia?

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Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?

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Did tribes during the period of great migration have a plan of where they were going?

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How close did America come to winning the war of 1812?

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What made Frederick Townsend Ward so successful? And did he have strong feelings about the Taiping rebellion?

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Are there any famous lodestones? Were they considered valuable, how rare were they, and did anyone sell them?

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How formidable would pacific northwest native tribes like the Haida have been to settlers if they weren't hit by disease first?

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How accurate are estimates like 5000 baiji living in the yangze in the 3rd BCE? Did ancient people understand sampling?	3
Who were the indigenous peoples encountered by viking explorers? How were they affected by the encounter?	3
Where was Thinis? Why don't we know where it was?	3
What type of resistance would Julias Caesar have run into if he traveled around the black sea after conquering Persia?	2
Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?	2
Did tribes during the period of great migration have a plan of where they were going?	2
How close did America come to winning the war of 1812?	2
What made Frederick Townsend Ward so successful? And did he have strong feelings about the Taiping rebellion?	1
Are there any famous lodestones? Were they considered valuable, how rare were they, and did anyone sell them?	1
How formidable would pacific northwest native tribes like the Haida have been to settlers if they weren't hit by disease first?	1