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Was it common in the USSR to give high-ranking government positions to relatively uneducated workers, as portrayed in HBO's Chernobyl?

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Tropical diseases kept Europeans from colonizing most of Africa until the 19th century, but how did Africans deal with them? Did they just have better innate immunity, or did they independently develop effective forms of disease control and treatment?

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Why didn’t Dutch survive as a lingua franca in Indonesia?

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There are famous examples of black slaveowners in the antebellum US, but what was the average attitude towards slavery among antebellum free blacks? Would most of them have felt solidarity with slaves and opposed slavery, or did they consider themselves a separate, superior class?

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How closely do the anachronistic fancy clothes worn by Biblical figures in old paintings reflect the fashions of the painters' own times and cities? And were any artists or patrons at the time bothered by the anachronism?

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At the height of the Roman Empire, how widely could a monolingual Latin speaker travel and expect to be able to get by?

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Would the typical Englishman c. 1900 have known that the "N-word" was offensive?

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Many leading Russian Revolutionaries were Jewish or had partial Jewish heritage, but in its later decades, the Soviet state was openly anti-Semitic. How did official ideology deal with the contradiction?

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When and how did French names such as Andre, Antoine, and Jermaine become popular among African-Americans?

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Did slaves in the American South with partially white ancestry (especially the offspring of plantation owners themselves) ever get preferential treatment compared to slaves with full African ancestry?

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Was it common in the USSR to give high-ranking government positions to relatively uneducated workers, as portrayed in HBO's Chernobyl?	23	AskHistorians
Tropical diseases kept Europeans from colonizing most of Africa until the 19th century, but how did Africans deal with them? Did they just have better innate immunity, or did they independently develop effective forms of disease control and treatment?	19	AskHistorians
Why didn’t Dutch survive as a lingua franca in Indonesia?	17	AskHistorians
There are famous examples of black slaveowners in the antebellum US, but what was the average attitude towards slavery among antebellum free blacks? Would most of them have felt solidarity with slaves and opposed slavery, or did they consider themselves a separate, superior class?	15	AskHistorians
How closely do the anachronistic fancy clothes worn by Biblical figures in old paintings reflect the fashions of the painters' own times and cities? And were any artists or patrons at the time bothered by the anachronism?	12	AskHistorians
At the height of the Roman Empire, how widely could a monolingual Latin speaker travel and expect to be able to get by?	11	AskHistorians
Would the typical Englishman c. 1900 have known that the "N-word" was offensive?	10	AskHistorians
Many leading Russian Revolutionaries were Jewish or had partial Jewish heritage, but in its later decades, the Soviet state was openly anti-Semitic. How did official ideology deal with the contradiction?	9	AskHistorians
When and how did French names such as Andre, Antoine, and Jermaine become popular among African-Americans?	7	AskHistorians
Did slaves in the American South with partially white ancestry (especially the offspring of plantation owners themselves) ever get preferential treatment compared to slaves with full African ancestry?	5	AskHistorians