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What did Constantinople look like in the few years before it was sacked in 1204? (? Still "Roman" looking architecture/statues/fountains that would remind us of Ancient Rome? Depopulated already before the sack?)	143
What historical and physical conditions in France made it possible that the three oldest surviving buildings in the world (according to wikipedia) are in France?	138
Why was early Christianity popular with women in Rome? Ex: Mike Duncan's history of Rome discusses how early Christianity was seen by the Roman aristocracy as a religion popular among some women and poor people	37
What accounts/ accurate re-enactments do we have of what exactly happened with a Phalanx spears physically reached their enemies head on who did not have as long spears? What did the enemy try to do? Run? Try to move in between the spears? Hold their ground with shields up and cause a standstill?	19
What are the biggest differences between the Russian Orthodox church now and the orthodox church we associate with Constantinople and Byzantine times? (How they dress, what they chant, what they believe, their historical power)	11
How did Augustus's famous Prima Porta statue survive in Livia's villa for so long without being found, looted, or significantly damaged?	3
Did Christianity and monotheism already have inevitable forward momentum/increasing popularity before Constantine such that it would have come without his support of it?	1
Best animation/re-enactment depicting how ancient chariot warfare looked like?	1
If Cupid originates from the ancient Greek Eros, why did Cupid remain so popular in art in the middle ages despites being a pagan in origin? What made him different than other figures from Greek mythology that he survived the iconoclasm and the drop in popularity of other Greek mythology figures?	1
Which cities stayed the most "Roman" for the longest in the centuries after 476 AD?	1

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