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Were there trade guilds in the late Eastern Roman Empire? Were there "national" guilds that coordinated local guilds? How did Eastern Roman guild structures influence those of neighboring and successor states?	3
How did the United Farm Workers go from a multi-ethnic social/labor organization to an outwardly Chicano/Mexican/Mexican-American organization that, at least in the American Southwest middle school education I got, is remembered almost solely for racial justice/civil rights?	3
What was the status of Russians and other Slavic peoples in the racial imagination of early 20th century America and more broadly "the West"? General Patton seems fond of describing Russian people as "degenerate Asiatics".	3
When did Irish people in Ireland first start thinking of emigrants and their descendants as "Irish-Americans" or "Irish-Canadians" and not "Irish in America/Canada/Australia/etc."? Was there anxiety about emigrants "losing their culture"?	3
Did the religion of the Ancient Romans influence that of the peoples they contacted?	3
When did Irish people in Ireland start thinking of emigrants as "Irish-Americans" and not "Irish in America" (or substitute "-Canadians", "-Australians", or anywhere in the diaspora) and how did they talk and write about it?	3
What's the history of the commercialization of diet fads in the United States? Specifically, when did commercialized diets start being marketed specifically to men or specifically to women?	3
How did the world come to have a common culture of international diplomacy given that, for example, Eastern Asia had one or more long-time independent diplomatic traditions while Europe/West Asia/the Mediterranean had its own age old set of traditions & norms?	2
In Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe and Western Asia did prosperity for the political center correlate with better quality of life for the political and social periphery? In other words, did richer kings have healthier and happier peasants than poorer kings?	2
How and why did sports become so heavily subsidized by the USSR? Why did the USSR feel sports was important enough to establish a sports council just 3 years after the troubles of the Revolution? Was there a major change in government involvement around the '52 Olympics?	2

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