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Did the Eastern Roman Empire aka the Byzantines had any type of access to War Elephants?	1
Did the Eastern Roman Empire (aka Byzantines) had any access to plate armor and full head helmets a la western european style or they always used chainmail, scale and lamellar armor with helmets that "partially covered the head"?	1
Why the Eastern Roman Empire (aka Byzantines) is not as popular in popular media compared to the Western Roman Empire?.	1
Roughly speaking, if we were to analyze these set of elite armors from the videogame Crusader Kings III that are from "Continental Europe", "Eastern Europe" and "Middle East" respectively from a "battle standpoint", what would be the advantages and disadvantages of each one of them?	1
"Justinian betrayed Belisarius by having his eyes gouged out and to rub salt in the wound he forced him to beg in the streets of Constantinople". Is there any evidence or proof of this or is it just an unsubstantiated urban legend of the Middle Ages?	1
Did the Eastern Roman Empire equipped any of it's troops with "flat top helmets" or "fully enclosed helmets" in it's entire history or it was just used by "Latinkon" (Western Mercenaries)?	1
Did the Eastern Roman Empire had any type of access to fully enclosed helmets like the ones of the archetypical medieval knight or where they exclusive for "Latinkon" (Western Europe Mercenaries)?	1
If Scipio Africanus didn't existed, could Hannibal have conquered Rome and won the Second Punic War in favor of Carthage or was Hannibal sentenced to fail from the very beginning, with or without Scipio?	0

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