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Was Punic/Carthaginian Culture to Phoenician culture as American/Canadian are to British culture?

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Pharaoh Ramses II celebrated a record 14 Sed Festivals and is estimated to have lived to 90-91 years of age in a time when people would be lucky to hit 50 years of age. What did his contemporaries make of his extreme longevity?

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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?

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Any good books/sources on the Phoenician colonies throughout the Mediterranean that don't focus solely on Carthage?

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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.”

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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?

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I’ve seen a few possible starts to the history of Messina in Sicily. One of them being that refugees from Messene in Greece colonized it after losing to the Spartans. If true, did they ever try to support Helot revolts in any way?

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What effect did the Black Death have on Patrician status in Venice? The “Great Council Lockout” whereby membership in the Great Council started to become hereditary began in 1297, 50 years prior to the pandemic, did the death toll reopen admittance to increase numbers?

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Do we know how the general population of the Eastern Mediterranean was affected by the Bronze Age Collapse? Did the population of the region go down? Were they more or less urbanized as a result?

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Were there ever any historical melee combat forms that made use of two swords?

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Was Punic/Carthaginian Culture to Phoenician culture as American/Canadian are to British culture?	7	AskHistorians
Pharaoh Ramses II celebrated a record 14 Sed Festivals and is estimated to have lived to 90-91 years of age in a time when people would be lucky to hit 50 years of age. What did his contemporaries make of his extreme longevity?	7	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Any good books/sources on the Phoenician colonies throughout the Mediterranean that don't focus solely on Carthage?	6	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
I’ve seen a few possible starts to the history of Messina in Sicily. One of them being that refugees from Messene in Greece colonized it after losing to the Spartans. If true, did they ever try to support Helot revolts in any way?	6	AskHistorians
What effect did the Black Death have on Patrician status in Venice? The “Great Council Lockout” whereby membership in the Great Council started to become hereditary began in 1297, 50 years prior to the pandemic, did the death toll reopen admittance to increase numbers?	6	AskHistorians
Do we know how the general population of the Eastern Mediterranean was affected by the Bronze Age Collapse? Did the population of the region go down? Were they more or less urbanized as a result?	6	AskHistorians
Were there ever any historical melee combat forms that made use of two swords?	6	AskHistorians