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What was the source material for "Civitates orbis Terrarum"?	2
How frequently did immigration occur during the middle ages and what portion of a large town or city's population would have likely been born elsewhere? Did medieval rulers impose restrictions on the flow of travel/trade? How were they implemented?	2
To what degree did common folk (peasants as well as lower and middle-class burghers) during the 15th and 16th centuries actually believe in supernatural phenomena (witches, ghouls, ghosts, dragons, wizards, goblins, elves, faeries, etc.)?	2
In the U.S. during the 19th and early 20th centuries it seems to have be not uncommon for immigrants to change their names to be perceived as more assimilated.	1
What did the daily life and labors of a peasant circa 1400-1520 consist of? What was there to do between planting and harvesting grain?	1
Other than accounts of primitive-communism in hunter-gatherer societies did any form of proto-communism exist in the pre-industrial world before the writings of Marx and Engels?	1
I've heard it said that in pre-industrial common-law if one could build a house on land between sunrise and sunset then they could legally have a claim to it was this ever the case, how was this enforced and how long would it have taken to actually build a house?	1
Was Halloween, All Hallows Eve or some other variant of the progenitor of the modern holiday observed during the 16th century and to what extent?	1
Millers in preindustrial times could often be spotted by the flat shape of their thumbs, a result of years of continously rubbing grain between their thumb and forefinger. Were there any types of physiological markers that other tradespeople had as a result of their trade/craft?	1
As a common peasant in 1500's Poland what is my awareness of the world at large and events taking place am I only aware of things that would be directly influencing my day to day life or would I have received news from abroad?	1

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