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Did the later Republican and Imperial Romans feel they had a right or destiny to conquer, like Manifest Destiny for the Mediterranean, or did the conquests kind of just... happen a bunch of times?	3
How long after germ theory became solidly accepted by Western health workers and biologists did it take for concepts re: "bad air"/miasma to disappear from the beliefs and practices of average people?	3
With written sources, we can interrogate the the author or scribe and their background, snoop out interpolations and refer to other written sources for context. What do we do for oral history?	3
What did the "mental map" in late antiquity/early middle ages Persia & South Asia look like, especially as it relates to the state? Where was the center of the world? Did the state have borders? Or was it a city & its subordinate cities? Something else? Could a state even be placed clearly on a map?	3
In the late history of the Roman Republic/early Empire did they consider any of the other states they interacted with as equals or almost equals diplomatically? Or did they view everyone as a lesser in their sphere of influence, even when at war with those "lessers"?	3
How did White Southern opinions change towards Civil Rights from the early 1950s to 1964? Did they generally become more open to legal equality or more defensive of segregation?	3
Pop culture sometimes preemptively declares the 21st century as "China's century". Which country (or countries) did commentators in 1880, 1900, or 1919 predict would be the economic, cultural and political powerhouse(s) of the 20th?	3
How did the depiction of religion on film, stage, and television change after the rapid growth of Christianity in South Korea from the mid 20th century onward?	3
As far as I'm aware, we have no Iranian primary sources on the Greco-Persian Wars. Is that because Persian writers didn't care to write about them, or because the Iranian corpus of that period is really slim in general?	3
Did other Allied countries actively whitewash/downplay the contribution of colonial or non-white soldiers during/after WWII the way the French did?	3

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