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To what degree did the Americans and other Western powers attempt to offer a moral or ethical reasoning to their citizens/subjects for the forced opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1854?	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
In what parts of the U.S. and Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries would it have been common for non-indigenous people to learn indigenous languages or related pidgins/creoles?	2
How did the popularity of the book & film "The Godfather" affect the self-image of American mafiosi as well as non-Italian-American organized crime?	2
When did marketing people & corporations realize that anti-materialist & anti-consumerist attitudes were things that they could profit from?	2
Why are compulsory voting laws so common in Latin America (although often without actual penalties or simply unenforced) when it's so uncommon elsewhere in the world?	2
Was Hitler's cult of personality a novelty in early 20th century Germany, or was there already an existing culture of leader-worship?	2
Besides British administrators & profiteers themselves were there any large/powerful social groups in colonial India against independence? What happened to them post independence?	2
In popular Russian cultural memory today Лихие 90-е (the hard 90s) is discussed as an almost apocalyptic era of decline. But did Russians of the time actually perceive it as such, especially compared to the crises of the late Soviet Union?	2
How were German Texans thought about and treated in Texas the generation or so post-Civil War given that they had largely been pro-Union and faced Confederate violence because of it?	2

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