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For a clan/ethnic group that ruled over China for ~300 hundred years, how&why did the Manchus become culturally/linguistically non-existent?

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Why do Spanish colonies seem to leave lots of mixed race descendants (between the Spaniards + the indigenous people) and even the descendants seem to have a unique culture, different from Spanish & the Indigenous people, meanwhile the English, French, and other ones don't?

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Why & how did the Pakistani government successfully make Urdu the lingua franca of Pakistanis while the Indian government failed?

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Pre-European contact, did the Sub-Saharan Africans ever make contact with North Africans?

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Historically, how do these current city-states manage to stay independent, and not absorbed/annexed by their neighboring countries?

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Why was British Burma separated from British India?

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For a clan/ethnic group that ruled over China for ~300 hundred years, how&why did the Manchus become culturally/linguistically non-existent?	179
Why do Spanish colonies seem to leave lots of mixed race descendants (between the Spaniards + the indigenous people) and even the descendants seem to have a unique culture, different from Spanish & the Indigenous people, meanwhile the English, French, and other ones don't?	62
Why & how did the Pakistani government successfully make Urdu the lingua franca of Pakistanis while the Indian government failed?	21
Pre-European contact, did the Sub-Saharan Africans ever make contact with North Africans?	11
Historically, how do these current city-states manage to stay independent, and not absorbed/annexed by their neighboring countries?	1
Why was British Burma separated from British India?	1