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The idea of basic, universal, fundamental 'human rights' seems, on the scale of history, remarkably modern, and seems to arrive in conjunction with the Great Divergence. Is there a link? Has any work been done to try and establish one?	11
The American colonists famously rebelled against taxation without representation; did the British consider acquiescing on this point before things escalated to violence? Were the American colonists asking for extraordinary rights for an overseas territory, or were they being singled out?	11
Organized labor seems less central to American life than it is in western Europe. Why is this so, and has it always been the case? Was there ever a time when organized labor was central to the American identity?	11
Both Germany and Japan experienced 'economic miracles' within a generation of the end of WWII; were their situations comparable? What made these recoveries possible? Were they as extraordinary, from a historical perspective, as they sound?	11
Did 'The Birth of a Nation', with its overt praise of the KKK, provoke any organized protest in either the African American or the white community?	11
Luther's Vulgate Bible triggered a philosophical firestorm, as the 'elite' debated whether the common man was capable of understanding the full text of the Bible without guidance. At what point in the Church's evolution had rank-and-file followers lost direct familiarity with the text?	11
The women's suffrage and prohibition amendments to the United States Constitution passed in less than two years at the end of the 1910s/beginning of the 1920s. How linked were the movements that led to the passage of both amendments?	11
Galileo was tried for heresy and afterwards spent the rest of his life under house arrest. 'House arrest' sounds like a relatively light punishment for being found guilty of heresy by the Inquisition; was this the case, and if so, how was his punishment determined?	11
Peter Waldo and Francis of Assisi were near contemporaries leading similar spiritual movements; how is it one wound up a saint while the other wound up branded a heretic?	11
Is there evidence that Sulla was considered a tyrant by contemporaries or near-contemporaries?	10

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