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I'm a low class Ancient Greek adolescent/young adult man. There's this girl of similar class on the other side of the polis/village to me who's just my type, and I'd like to get conjugal with her. What romantic conventions are there that i should be thinking about and planning?	4719
The wikipedia for 'Bank Robbery' lists the first example as occuring in 1798. Were there really no renaissance/medieval bank robberies? If so, why not?	112
In 1834, when slavery was abolished across the British Empire, the owners were paid full value for the slaves. How was this value calculated, paid for, and was there a significant outrage over this reimbursement?	85
During the process of Federation in Australia, both New Zealand and Fiji were originally planned to join, as one commonwealth nation. Why did they decline to join?	70
According to various sources compiled by Wiki, in the 1080s, c. 10% of the English were slaves. 120 years later, slavery was non existent. What was the nature of this slavery, and how did this system come to an end?	41
It's 1,000AD, I'm in London, and I want to buy some armour. Where do I go, what are my options, and what sort of prices am I looking at?	37
I'm a young Roman boy in the Republic, time to learn to read. What methods would be expected to teach me literacy? At least at the beginning, before we get on to reading The Iliad in a second language of Greek. I assume I won't be reading eruca valde famelica.	24
Why, in 1802, did Napoleon reinstitute slavery?	16
How did William 1st of England make the decision to give his third son the English Crown, his eldest the Duchy of Normandy, and his youngest son only cash? Was it at whim, and was there any legal precedent on this seemingly random/merit based primogeniture?	16
After the Norman conquest of England, when/how did the Saxon 'rebellion' end? When/how did the Saxon/other pre Norman identity cease to exist and be replaced with 'English?	13

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