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How long has the "current cycle" of the seven-day week been going on? E.g. January 1, 10 AD was a Wednesday, according to us. Would the Romans have agreed? Were there different regions counting different days of the week that had to be aligned with the rise of modern communications?

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How long was knowledge of Sumerian and Akkadian civilization preserved by succeeding cultures? Did modern archaeologists know about their existence when they began to decipher cuneiform in the 1800s?

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How did the majority-Muslim population of what is now Pakistan react to being ruled by the non-Muslim Sikh Empire in the early 1800s?

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By what years had Christians become a minority in different parts of the Middle East?

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How long has the "current cycle" of the seven-day week been going on? E.g. January 1, 10 AD was a Wednesday, according to us. Would the Romans have agreed? Were there different regions counting different days of the week that had to be aligned with the rise of modern communications?	950
How long was knowledge of Sumerian and Akkadian civilization preserved by succeeding cultures? Did modern archaeologists know about their existence when they began to decipher cuneiform in the 1800s?	42
How did the majority-Muslim population of what is now Pakistan react to being ruled by the non-Muslim Sikh Empire in the early 1800s?	17
By what years had Christians become a minority in different parts of the Middle East?	11