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28 Questions

What is a major historical event historians are deeply divided over?

Why was Newton's observation of the falling apple significant?

Why did the Middle Kingdom stop building pyramid tombs?

Why do all my history books divide Chinese history after the Han dynasty?

Were any of the early settlements in America attacked from the sea?

When did the US colonies/states stop making their own currencies?

Were the Spanish conquistadors really motivated by myths like El Dorado?

What motivated Marco Polo to share his trade knowledge?

How much is known about the Earl of Sandwich's sandwich?

What is the name of this song about taking Cherokee land?

How did the conquistadors imagine the "lake of gold" to be like?

Were crosses frequently used as communication while exploring?

Did flatbread originate in one place?

Were the Japanese aware of Desmond Doss's actions?

Was "leather" really a technology introduced by Europeans to the Plains Indians?

Did the empresario system exist only within Mexican Texas?

Did the territories officially choose a side to support in the American Civil War?

Are stories passed down from generation to generation considered primary sources? [closed]

What does "Quivira" refer to? [closed]

Why is the term "Ancestral Puebloans" used and not simply "Puebloans"?

Did the Mexican province of Nuevo Mexico have its own provincial flag?

What factors enabled or motivated the Age of Exploration? [closed]

Did US soldiers typically keep an official journal or log during the Civil War era?

Did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo intend for Mexicans to live in the USA but under Mexican law? [closed]

What is the correct English terminology to refer to New Mexico and Texas under Spain, then Mexico?

Is this newspaper article describing the Battle of Glorieta Pass?

Is there any resource for showing world territories at different years?

Why did Americans give up meat resembling animals? [closed]