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Do historians agree that most wars are caused by religion?

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

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Why bother to attack in trench warfare?

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Cultural understanding of Penelope's suitors

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Why are the German and French languages so different?

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How did the Roman state verify citizenship?

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How did passengers keep warm on sail ships?

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

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

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Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?

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

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

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Why did Mexico encourage the settlement of Texas by Americans?

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

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Why were battles massed until the late 1800s?

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

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

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

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

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Non-Italian European mafias in USA?

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

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Buddhism vs. Hinduism — what did it mean politically?

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How did Germany rebuild so quickly after World War I?

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When did streets get names?

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

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

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

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

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Did Napoleon write an elegy to Imam Hussain?

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

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