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Why do portraits of most Chinese emperors look fat?

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The Hundred Years' War and the Byzantine-Sasanian Wars were both very long series of conflicts with peace in between. Proportionally, which of these wars had more peacetime?

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Would ancient Mesopotamia (Akkadian era and prior) have suffered through the same diseases that Medieval Europeans and post-contact native Americans suffered through millennia later?

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How significant were the British and French in the Pacific theatre of WWII--after Indochina and Malaysia had already fallen?

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In the Age of Sail, travelling by sea was faster than travelling by land. Was this true in the Middle Ages and Roman times too, when oars were predominant?

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How much of the growth of the population of the United States was immigration, and how much was natural growth?

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What are some historical topics that cannot be supported by archaeology or anything other than written sources?

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How would mainstream Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire in the early 400s view 21st-century Christians?

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What cultural legacy of the Ottoman Empire persists in Western Europe?

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When did Biblical names become popular among Europeans? And why did certain ones become more popular than others?

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Why do portraits of most Chinese emperors look fat?	5
The Hundred Years' War and the Byzantine-Sasanian Wars were both very long series of conflicts with peace in between. Proportionally, which of these wars had more peacetime?	5
Would ancient Mesopotamia (Akkadian era and prior) have suffered through the same diseases that Medieval Europeans and post-contact native Americans suffered through millennia later?	5
How significant were the British and French in the Pacific theatre of WWII--after Indochina and Malaysia had already fallen?	5
In the Age of Sail, travelling by sea was faster than travelling by land. Was this true in the Middle Ages and Roman times too, when oars were predominant?	5
How much of the growth of the population of the United States was immigration, and how much was natural growth?	5
What are some historical topics that cannot be supported by archaeology or anything other than written sources?	5
How would mainstream Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire in the early 400s view 21st-century Christians?	5
What cultural legacy of the Ottoman Empire persists in Western Europe?	5
When did Biblical names become popular among Europeans? And why did certain ones become more popular than others?	5