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132 Questions

Are modern Greeks related to the ancient Greeks?

Was slavery really on the way out in the antebellum USA?

Did the Romans have winter uniforms?

Did Muslim states hire Western European knights as mercenaries before the Crusades?

Is it true that medieval villages didn't have names?

Why didn't the Persians make and use ballistas and other kinds of artillery?

Did the Romans install offensive statues in the temples of conquered territories?

What is the basis for the argument that the true believers in Juche died in the N. Korean famine?

Did the poor performance of the Red Army in the Winter War significantly contribute to German underestimation of the USSR's military capacity?

Who came up with the name “Peloponnesian War”?

Why were women excluded from the succession line in the Meiji constitution?

Did the Romans melt down looted golden objects or did they keep them intact?

How popular was Mozart in France before WWII and after it?

Why was Stalin so opposed to genetics?

Why is Finland represented as a Soviet satellite in this 1947 cartoon?

Gazan attitudes to Egyptian rule 1948-1967

Did the Weimar governments publish revelatory WWI documents?

Why did Charles I not borrow abroad?

What was Gandhi's post-factum view of the Partition?

What was (if at all) Hitler's Plan B if Molotov-Ribbentrop had not worked out?

What is the basis of Russian criticism of Antony Beevor's work? [closed]

What happened to General Eugen Müller after WWII?

Did Goebbels realize that his wife used to know Arlozorov?

Is there a difference between Douhet and Walther Wever's strategic bombing theories?

Why were cobblers so radical?

Republican thought in the Middle Ages

Internal customs in the Roman Empire

What was the contemporary German public opinion on the Herero Genocide?

Is the USA Congress explicitly patterned after the British Parliament?

Was there an export industry of papyrus from ancient Egypt?