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Some questions about pre-modern popular/common music

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I was looking at Wikipedia's entry about Mesopotamia and it had a map that showed where arsenic was mined. Other than poisoning people, what use did people in the ancient world have for arsenic?

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How did ancient Romans join pipes?

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What would the diet of a Jewish family in England or France during the High Middle Ages look like?

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Apart from the switch from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution (and perhaps the Civil War, I guess), has there ever been a serious movement in the USA to ever replace rather than merely amend the Constitution?

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Both oil lamps and candle lanterns are known from antiquity, but the oldest oil lanterns I'm familiar with are from the early modern period. Did it really take that long for people to have the idea of enclosing an oil lamp as they might a candle? If so, why?

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During the era of Jim Crow, how much discrimination could a black person who lived outside the South expect to face? What about members of other minorities (Asian, Latino, Native American)?

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How much knowledge/contact did the Aztecs and Incas have with one another?

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When did bibles start to be printed/copied with Jesus's words emphasized by being marked in red?

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History, as the saying goes, is written by the winners. So how did revisionist "lost cause" narratives of slavery and the Civil War ever gain as much traction as they did?

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Some questions about pre-modern popular/common music	9
I was looking at Wikipedia's entry about Mesopotamia and it had a map that showed where arsenic was mined. Other than poisoning people, what use did people in the ancient world have for arsenic?	9
How did ancient Romans join pipes?	9
What would the diet of a Jewish family in England or France during the High Middle Ages look like?	7
Apart from the switch from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution (and perhaps the Civil War, I guess), has there ever been a serious movement in the USA to ever replace rather than merely amend the Constitution?	7
Both oil lamps and candle lanterns are known from antiquity, but the oldest oil lanterns I'm familiar with are from the early modern period. Did it really take that long for people to have the idea of enclosing an oil lamp as they might a candle? If so, why?	7
During the era of Jim Crow, how much discrimination could a black person who lived outside the South expect to face? What about members of other minorities (Asian, Latino, Native American)?	6
How much knowledge/contact did the Aztecs and Incas have with one another?	6
When did bibles start to be printed/copied with Jesus's words emphasized by being marked in red?	6
History, as the saying goes, is written by the winners. So how did revisionist "lost cause" narratives of slavery and the Civil War ever gain as much traction as they did?	5