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How durable were reed-bundle boats of the style used in Egypt or South America?

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I heard a man named Fan Li described as an early Chinese equivalent of what westerners might call a naturalist or ecologist; what, specifically, did he research/discover?

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What do we know about pre-European-contact Australian seafaring?

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Did the Mediterranean under Rome ever deal with a fisheries collapse? If so, how did Rome or the relevant local authorities respond?

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Were people who were considered, but passed over, for what would become the Lewis and Clark expedition aware that they had been under consideration? What was their reaction to the expedition's success?

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How did the bicycle fall out of use as a military transportation system?

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How do historians evaluate how physically fit historical people might have been?

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How did economists and businessmen of the time react to the publishing of W.S. Jevons' "The Coal Question" and specifically his introduction of the Jevons Paradox?

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What, if anything, did Imperial China know about Polynesia?

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in pre-industrial Japan, how long would it have taken an important message to get from one end of Honshu to the other?

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How durable were reed-bundle boats of the style used in Egypt or South America?	5
I heard a man named Fan Li described as an early Chinese equivalent of what westerners might call a naturalist or ecologist; what, specifically, did he research/discover?	5
What do we know about pre-European-contact Australian seafaring?	5
Did the Mediterranean under Rome ever deal with a fisheries collapse? If so, how did Rome or the relevant local authorities respond?	5
Were people who were considered, but passed over, for what would become the Lewis and Clark expedition aware that they had been under consideration? What was their reaction to the expedition's success?	5
How did the bicycle fall out of use as a military transportation system?	5
How do historians evaluate how physically fit historical people might have been?	5
How did economists and businessmen of the time react to the publishing of W.S. Jevons' "The Coal Question" and specifically his introduction of the Jevons Paradox?	5
What, if anything, did Imperial China know about Polynesia?	4
in pre-industrial Japan, how long would it have taken an important message to get from one end of Honshu to the other?	4