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Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union how much information and research could Western and Soviet scientists exchange between them? How did internal policy decisions like Glasnost affect this relationship?	6	AskHistorians
What did Indian thinkers & grammarians think about the origins of & relationships between languages before modern linguistics? Did they recognize that the Dravidian/southern Indian languages had a different origin from the others?	6	AskHistorians
Did the aristocracy and academics of Japan, Korea or Vietnam see Neo-Confucianism as a foreign way of thinking that had become native? Or as a set of universal intellectual and social principles? Or something else entirely?	6	AskHistorians
When did the fictional device of the sewer large enough (and safe enough) for people to explore like catacombs first come about?	6	AskHistorians
How reliable was food security in the United States in the late 19th century, at the large regional and national level? Would the great locust plagues of the 1870s be enough to cause local starvation and national price fluctuations?	6	AskHistorians
Pre-Yuan, did Chinese literature make much use of the 'Noble Savage' theme for nomadic peoples, a la indigenous Americans/Europeans and Gauls/Romans, or were they always dangerous or backwards 'alien' peoples?	6	AskHistorians
Did the Romans and Hellenistic Greek states engage in the same mass population transfers/forced migration of craftspeople and elites that the Neo-Assyrians and Persians did? If yes were they deliberately copying the policy of past empires?	6	AskHistorians
OTHER THAN scalping, what purposes, ritually, strategically, socially, etc. did mutilation of enemy corpses by natives serve during the wars of the Great Plains in the 19th century?	5	AskHistorians
During the early colonial period what was the state of multilingualism in the Indian subcontinent especially the most densely populated parts? Was everyone bi- and trilingual (or more)? How'd things change with eventual British consolidation?	5	AskHistorians
Today tourists visit Belfast specifically to see the legacy of the Troubles and the current state of Irish sectarian affairs. When did the Troubles become a marketable thing to tourists? Was there "extreme tourism" in the 20th century, a la North Korea/the Andean death highway?	5	AskHistorians

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