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Were the public marketplaces and “forums” in Ancient Greece and Rome actually publicly owned (by the city/state) or were they someone’s private property?

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Did teenagers in the past really swing and foxtrot or is that all media portrayal?

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Do we know if Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro ever met in real life?

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Is there a way to compare how slavery-intensive older civilizations were? Like, we know that much of the Americas was developed through the labor of African slavery, but is it possible to compare the size of the slavery industry to other civilizations’ like China, Arab, or domestic European slavery?

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Were the public marketplaces and “forums” in Ancient Greece and Rome actually publicly owned (by the city/state) or were they someone’s private property?	12
Did teenagers in the past really swing and foxtrot or is that all media portrayal?	11
Do we know if Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro ever met in real life?	1
Is there a way to compare how slavery-intensive older civilizations were? Like, we know that much of the Americas was developed through the labor of African slavery, but is it possible to compare the size of the slavery industry to other civilizations’ like China, Arab, or domestic European slavery?	1