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Today we count years based on when Jesus Christ lived, but during his life what would he have considered the year to be? Did people in that part of the world during that time count years like we do now?

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Did any captured Africans, on their way to slavery, successfully manage to not only revolt on the ship but seize control and steer it to land during the trans Atlantic slave trade?

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I am a very average person living in Europe during the 1490's. When and how do I find out about the newly "discovered" continent of America?

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Today we count years based on when Jesus Christ lived, but during his life what would he have considered the year to be? Did people in that part of the world during that time count years like we do now?	1279
Did any captured Africans, on their way to slavery, successfully manage to not only revolt on the ship but seize control and steer it to land during the trans Atlantic slave trade?	770
I am a very average person living in Europe during the 1490's. When and how do I find out about the newly "discovered" continent of America?	358