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39 Questions

How did the American Civil War help the U.S economy recover from the Panic of 1857 given that civil wars are extremely destructive?

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

What strategic value did Christianity hold for Constantine that made him convert to Christianity?

What forces/incentives drove the Mongols to conquer a much larger territory than they could comfortably settle or rule?

Why was 19th-century Japan able to modernize and not China?

How did Germany rebuild so quickly after World War I?

What were the factors that caused the world to move away from the Gold Standard in the 20th century?

How did the conquering Mongols and Manchus of China end up becoming part of China?

Why did the Soviet Union's economy grow fast in the 1950's-1960's?

How did the Catholic Pope manage to become more powerful than Kings in old Europe?

How did the Egyptian engineers of the Third and Fourth Dynasty construct the Pyramids and Sphinx without modern science and mathematics? [closed]

What happened to the wealth of the Rothschild banking family? [closed]

Why did World War I victors let Germany pay reparations in German Marks and gave it the option to default via inflation?

What happened to the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church accumulated over the ages?

What were the factors that aided Margaret Thatcher in her victory against the trade unions when her predecessors failed?

Were the heavy war reparations on Germany after World War I the main cause of its hyperinflation in 1923?

How did Maximilien de Robespierre lose control of his Reign of Terror and die by the guillotine?

Could Great Britain have built the British Empire if it was not the pioneer of the Industrial Revolution?

Why didn't the European Christians take back Constantinopole?

What were factors that led to a decline in bond yields during World War II given that the opposite should have happened?

How was Switzerland able to stay neutral during WWI and WWII?

What factors led to the 30% devaluation of pound sterling in 1949?

Why didn't Zheng He colonize the countries he explored like what the Europeans did to the New World? [closed]

What advantage did Napoleon gain by attacking and antagonizing the Catholic Church?

Did the U.S economy flourish after national debt was eliminated by President Andrew Jackson in 1835?

What were the factors behind the lowest AAA corporate interest rate in U.S bond history during 1946?

What were the factors that led to stagflation in the United States during the 1970s?

What were the factors that caused debtors' prison to disappear in most parts of the world in the 20th century?

What happened to the overseas wealth of the Holocaust Jews?

Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt confiscate gold from the American people during the Great Depression?