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Do historians agree that most wars are caused by religion?

Why were old fortifications shaped like stars and not like circles?

Why bother to attack in trench warfare?

Cultural understanding of Penelope's suitors

Why are the German and French languages so different?

How did the Roman state verify citizenship?

How did passengers keep warm on sail ships?

Why were helmets and other body armour not commonplace in the 1800s?

Has there ever been a battle with only a single survivor?

Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?

Were the living standards in Medieval Europe a lot worse than in the Muslim world?

Did Pope Urban II issue the papal bull “terra nullius” in 1095?

Why did Mexico encourage the settlement of Texas by Americans?

Why in most German places is the church the tallest building?

Why were battles massed until the late 1800s?

When was the last documented occasion that Arab or Ottoman slave traders abducted people from Europe?

What is the name of the theory that says an early discovery can stop technological development?

What did Germany do after World War II to recover so successfully that it became more prosperous than its WW2 victors?

Couldn't an army of archers easily defeat Macedonian style phalanxes?

Non-Italian European mafias in USA?

Does a reputation for cruelty to PoWs give a tactical advantage?

Buddhism vs. Hinduism — what did it mean politically?

How did Germany rebuild so quickly after World War I?

When did streets get names?

Why didn't mercenary combat after the middle ages lead to the collapse of the ruling class?

Why did Stalin deem Quantum Mechanics 'counter-revolutionary'?

Why do central European nations use the color black as their national colors?

Why didn't Germany attack US ports with U-boats during WW II?

Did Napoleon write an elegy to Imam Hussain?

How much gunpowder could the average Napoleonic ship of the line carry?