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Farmers and other tradesmen seemed to have relied quite a bit on almanacs in the pre-modern period. Did these almanacs actually contain accurate predictions about weather, moon phases, and tides, etc.? How were these predictions derived at this time?
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Suppose I am a French knight arriving in the Holy Land during the First Crusade. Would I have expected the Levant to have been hot, sandy, and dry or would I be surprised that Jesus’ homeland did not look similar to France?
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In 1791, when the 2nd amendment was truly about militias and muskets, was there any debate about gun control?
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How did empires know how much of currency to produce/needed? Did empires (Spanish, Roman, any Chinese, Macedonian, etc.) have central bank like institution to plan and "control" the economy (and not just simply print money)?
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