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By modern standards how nutritious was the diet of a late medieval peasant? What about the diet of other people on social ladder of the time?	100
The court of King Alfred the Great of Wessex is often described as being a place of great learning, how did it compare with those of other monarchs of this time both in the British Isles and on the Continent?	92
Who were the "Diggers" or True Levellers and where do social-religious movements of this era (16th and 17th centuries) fit in the history of socialism?	86
Upon the death of Elizabeth I was there any attempt by Plantagenet descendants to put themselves forward as claimants?	85
How cosmopolitan was Constantinople at the time of it's fall?	83
Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?" What is being referred to here?	80
In the tv series "Wolf Hall" Thomas More mentions the conquests of the ottoman empire as an existential threat to Christianity, would this have been a common mindset for people as far removed as England?	68
How did the Education System (primary, secondary, tertiary and vocational) in the USSR compare to the education offered in western countries like Britain and America during a similar period? (1922-1991)	63
How was the supply of food for medieval and Renaissance cities organized, did they possess adjacent and a peasant population to provide them with ample food or were they free farmers? Especially curious in the case of larger German free cities and Italian city states	60
I've often heard it said that William Shakespeare was either a homosexual or bisexual, it seems unlikely that anyone could prove either way but it makes me wonder, what life would have been like for an openly homosexual man or woman during that era (late 1500s and early 1600s) in Western Europe?	57

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