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How similar would a 18th or 19th century PhD student's work and schedule be to a present day PhD student's?
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Millet was a major food crop through Eurasia for millennia but is now best known as birdseed. What caused the switch to rice and wheat?
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Was Classical Music ever the "pop music" of the past? Was it widely popular? Did everyone know Beethoven, Brahms and Bach?
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In "Braveheart", King Edward Longshanks orders his archers to fire on soldiers who are engaged in hand to hand combat on the battlefield, in the knowledge that they will hit his own men. Are there any historical examples of something like this ever happening?
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Did Alexander the Great's conquests disrupt or increase the exchange of ideas, culture and trade goods between East and West?
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