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How did large pre-modern and early modern states prepare for or deal with social problems caused by demobilization after conflicts?	2
I hear often about Latin and Greek graffiti during the classical period. What about medieval graffiti? Does the presence or absence of urban graffiti in the middle ages correlate with fluctuating levels of literacy in urban populations?	2
Today the state, insurers, and religious and secular NGOs are variously expected to be prime organizers of disaster response and restitution. Who, if anyone, provided organized response to sudden weather-related disaster in Mediterranean antiquity, especially before the 1st century CE?	2
How, if at all, did early modern religious leaders and moralists, especially those in service of the state, attempt to excuse away the vices of their sovereigns? E.g., avarice, continual adultery, and, in the Ottoman case, systematic fratricide?	2
What was life like for black people in Dublin or Liverpool (and nearby places) at the turn of the 20th century? How were black people treated in working-class communities?	2
Accountants and lawyers give advice but doctors give orders. How did physicians (and medical researchers), especially in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, get imbued with so much authority over their patients/subjects, who seemed to have almost zero choice in their own care?	2
Did ethnic identity play a major part in rulership and politics more broadly in Sahelian and subsaharan East Africa before colonization? If so, how did the British exploit existing norms when they arrived?	2
How, if at all, did early modern religious leaders and moralists, especially those in service of the state, attempt to excuse away the vices of their sovereigns? E.g., avarice, continual adultery, and, in the Ottoman case, systematic fratricide?	2
Was there a way to insult a woman in the European middle ages (particularly around the 10th and 11th centuries) that didn't involve impugning her sex life?	2
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? And other questions.	2

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