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I often find myself reading about Kings during the High Middle Ages that had terrible relationships with their Lords and fought wars like King John of England. Are there any notable examples that monarchs that had especially good relations with their lords during this time period?	6
How interrelated is the ecclesiastical hierarchy of Roman Catholicism to that of the Ancient Roman religion? I know that they had Augurs in a special priestly roles but did they have equivalents to Bishops, Cardinals, the Pope?	6
Did significant numbers of ethnic Latins actually migrate around the Roman Republic and Empire, and consequently leave a genetic mark on conquered territories, or were the “Romans” in far flung lands mostly just acculturated peoples?	6
I read some interesting things about Québec’s french population and their ancestry relative to that of Acadia: that the ancestors of both were largely from separate areas of France and that Québec has a huge “founder effect.”	6
What did the Ancient Greeks make of the Arcadocypriot language spoken in Arcadia and Cyprus?	6
What were diplomatic and trade relations like between the Achaemenid Empire and Carthage?	5
Hello! I’m a Roman and I just signed up for service in the Republican legions. I was told that upon completing my service I’d be given a plot of land. What are the logistics of this? Do I get some start up cash? Will it be a new community from the ground up?	5
Listening to the History of England podcast, and a point has been made that London petitioned King Stephen to become a commune. Being a market town, would this have looked at all like the Merchant Republics of Italy?	5
I just found out that Zenobia may be a descendant of Mark Antony and Cleopatra through Drusilla of Mauretania and her husband Sohaemus. This means that she was part Julii through Mark Antony. Was this ever remarked upon during her time? Any other fascinating connections like this in Antiquity?	5
How (if at all) did the religious and ethnic demography of the Levent change as a result of the Crusades? Did any groups lastingly convert to Christianity? Did any sizeable group of Europeans stay and leave genetic traces?	5

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