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In 300 A.D., what language would your average inhabitant of Gaul speak? How about a Gallic aristocrat?

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How much of the folk beliefs and superstitions of the Roman peasantry are we able to reconstruct?

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What was a Byzantine Christmas like?

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What was Byzantine cuisine like?

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Many different languages were spoken by the inhabitants of the Roman Empire. So when men enlisted, did they have to learn to speak Latin?

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During the Italian Renaissance (the early 15th through the early 16th century), what would a Venetian army have looked like?

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How did Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos afford his currency reforms?

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What did your average European call the Byzantines/Byzantium at the time of the First Crusade? Did they call them Romans? Or something else?

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How did the Spanish defend their colonial holdings in North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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During Late Antiquity, was the Westen half of the Roman Empire really that much poorer than the Eastern Half?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
In 300 A.D., what language would your average inhabitant of Gaul speak? How about a Gallic aristocrat?	388
How much of the folk beliefs and superstitions of the Roman peasantry are we able to reconstruct?	228
What was a Byzantine Christmas like?	197
What was Byzantine cuisine like?	186
Many different languages were spoken by the inhabitants of the Roman Empire. So when men enlisted, did they have to learn to speak Latin?	135
During the Italian Renaissance (the early 15th through the early 16th century), what would a Venetian army have looked like?	86
How did Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos afford his currency reforms?	81
What did your average European call the Byzantines/Byzantium at the time of the First Crusade? Did they call them Romans? Or something else?	62
How did the Spanish defend their colonial holdings in North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?	35
During Late Antiquity, was the Westen half of the Roman Empire really that much poorer than the Eastern Half?	27