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Oct 31	comment	Do most of today's democratic nations with two-party system exhibit a civil war in recent past? Interestingly, one could argue that the two-party system in Britain also evolved from the civil war (in the XVIIth century).
Oct 31	answered	What Factors Contributed to the Success of Certain “Long March” Strategies?
Oct 31	comment	Why are many African nations poor? Slavery was a big factor.
Oct 27	comment	How would a large kingdom be ruled? The monarchs had to be "on the move" large part of the time, to visit different parts of their kingdom and keep their vassals loyal.
Oct 27	comment	Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture People were then becoming adult more quickly than in our times.
Oct 27	comment	When and how did the idea of a “class-less” society originate in the United States? What about economic classes (labour vs capitalists)?
Oct 27	revised	Thomas Kuhn's impact on academia fix spelling
Oct 27	comment	Has Britain's 1940 invasion of Iceland been downplayed by historians? To equate the invasions, one would have to overlook such trifle details as the fact that one of the goals the Germans wanted to achieve by invading Denmark was to murder its Jewish population.
Oct 27	suggested	suggested edit on Thomas Kuhn's impact on academia
Oct 27	comment	How do new countries legally and without bloodshed declare themselves independent? "Some countries (such as Poland) were re-made after a war and given independence again." It certainly did not happen without bloodshed (Polish troops taking sides in WWI, the Russo-Polish war of 1919-20).
Oct 27	comment	What factors contributed to earlier democratic states failing? @Lennart Actually, democratic Britain was able to mobilize its society much better during WW2 than totalitarian Germany. This was because the government had much more legitimacy in the UK than in the Third Reich.
Oct 23	comment	Are modern handguns a major reason for democratization? @suriv Yes, but the workers were not doing most of it.
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Oct 23	answered	Are modern handguns a major reason for democratization?
Oct 22	comment	Why was the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959) ultimately successful? I think the cruelty of the Batistuta regime immensely helped Castro gain popularity.
Oct 22	awarded	Editor
Oct 22	revised	Why did Hitler declare war on the USA? warning about the source's reputation
Oct 22	comment	In what ways did the rise of a true middle class in Europe during the late 19th century become apparent? What is the definition of a middle class today? The "99%"? ;-)
Oct 22	suggested	suggested edit on Why did Hitler declare war on the USA?
Oct 22	comment	What were Hitler's religious beliefs? @Dorothy Going against the Jews was a strong Christian sentiment for centuries. It was even part of the Catholic lithurgy until the second half of the XXth century.