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Why were live-in domestic servants so much more common in the 19th and early 20th centuries than they are today?

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How did the Ottomans hold together an empire in the Middle East?

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What type of training would soldiers in the American Civil War receive before experiencing combat for the first time?

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Why was slave labor used more in the production of cash crops than in the production of staple agricultural goods?

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Some of my male ancestors may have been of conscriptable age during the American Civil War, but there are no records of them ever fighting in the war. How might have they avoided the draft?

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What factors would lead soldiers to "sack" a city once they captured it? While broader answers are also appreciated, I am specifically asking about the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. For example the sack of Rome in 1527 and the sack of Magdeburg in 1631.

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Why were live-in domestic servants so much more common in the 19th and early 20th centuries than they are today?

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Between numerous wars, famines, and political purges, people living in Russia from 1914 to 1945 endured a remarkably brutal period of history. Has the collective memory of these extreme experiences shaped Russian culture in any notable way?

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Why were live-in domestic servants so much more common in the 19th and early 20th centuries than they are today?	83
How did the Ottomans hold together an empire in the Middle East?	63
What type of training would soldiers in the American Civil War receive before experiencing combat for the first time?	51
Why was slave labor used more in the production of cash crops than in the production of staple agricultural goods?	39
Some of my male ancestors may have been of conscriptable age during the American Civil War, but there are no records of them ever fighting in the war. How might have they avoided the draft?	30
What factors would lead soldiers to "sack" a city once they captured it? While broader answers are also appreciated, I am specifically asking about the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. For example the sack of Rome in 1527 and the sack of Magdeburg in 1631.	18
Why were live-in domestic servants so much more common in the 19th and early 20th centuries than they are today?	7
Between numerous wars, famines, and political purges, people living in Russia from 1914 to 1945 endured a remarkably brutal period of history. Has the collective memory of these extreme experiences shaped Russian culture in any notable way?	4