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The U.S. Civil War and the Boshin War in Japan occurred roughly simultaneously with the wars of German unification and the wars of Italian unification. To what extent, if at all, were these conflicts seen by contemporaries as part of related global phenomena?

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How was the royal incest of the Ptolemies viewed by their contemporaries (Greeks, Seleucids, Romans, Parthians etc.)?

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Lollardy is often considered an important pre-Lutheran forerunner to Protestant Christianity in England. To what extent (and up to what point) did Lollardy survive the Reformation as a distinct movement from post-Lutheran Protestantism?

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Why did such a small number of teams dominate Soviet hockey and football leagues?

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In a 1941 Life article, Alexander Kerensky claims that Hitler was willing to invade the USSR, in part, because he knew Russians hated the Bolshevist government and wanted to remove it by any means necessary. Did the Germans truly expect substantial Russian collaboration as Kerensky suggests?

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The U.S. Civil War and the Boshin War in Japan occurred roughly simultaneously with the wars of German unification and the wars of Italian unification. To what extent, if at all, were these conflicts seen by contemporaries as part of related global phenomena?	489
How was the royal incest of the Ptolemies viewed by their contemporaries (Greeks, Seleucids, Romans, Parthians etc.)?	107
Lollardy is often considered an important pre-Lutheran forerunner to Protestant Christianity in England. To what extent (and up to what point) did Lollardy survive the Reformation as a distinct movement from post-Lutheran Protestantism?	20
Why did such a small number of teams dominate Soviet hockey and football leagues?	7
In a 1941 Life article, Alexander Kerensky claims that Hitler was willing to invade the USSR, in part, because he knew Russians hated the Bolshevist government and wanted to remove it by any means necessary. Did the Germans truly expect substantial Russian collaboration as Kerensky suggests?	5