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    What Brought About the End of the Islamic Golden Age?

    Lots of things. Over extension, reactionaries, blowback from conquered peoples rebelling, blowback from attacked peoples launching counter-invasions on increasingly organized scale, invasions via the Seljuk Turks, invasions via the Mongols (this did admittedly happen after the period generally...
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    Why is "Brave New World" considered a dystopian novel?

    The basic idea behind Huxley's book is that government won't have to use fear to turn everyone docile. We'll do it ourselves with technology, distractions, all those shiny things. Basically you still have no free will... a gilded cage as it were. Orwell did the opposite. Real life is a mix of...
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    Why is Homosexuality EVIL?

    Near as I can tell it is a cultural convention descended from the desire for the tribe to survive. A non-producing member does little to continue the lineage in a world where your village can be annihalated the next day. Of course modern civilization and all the wonderful scientific advancements...
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    Flick the Greeks

    The problem with a unified currency means the irresponsibility of one government tied to it can essentially screw over everyone else. Because of this anyone tied to the currency now has a stake in its future. A big one. So if a country is in absolute refusal and desires to do whatever the hell...
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    By jingo!

    Thaft woulf be meanth.
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    Flick the Greeks

    Germany was forced into the euro (or rather forced into paving the way for a unified currency) or France wasn't going to support or allow them to reunify as a single nation. Actually the weak currency is helpful to the German manufacturing sector (the reason they are doing so well) because it...
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    African DNA amongst Native Britons

    Outside the appearance the bolding gives... Actually I remember reading about this a while back. It's neat to know and really not all that surprising. To say the Roman Empire was multicultural is a bit of an understatement. Romanization was certainly a different form of imperialism. I did know...
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    Arab Spring? Or Arab Winter?

    Realpolitik. I do know that China and Russia were refusing to budge on a sanction against the regime on arms sales. I do also know the regime in Syria has strong ties to Moscow dating back to the cold war. Many Arab nations do. Moscow might see another NATO indebted nation as a threat. It is...
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    By jingo!

    Hi. I am bored and am kind of just here to learn things. Or teach. Happens both ways really.
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