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What sort of scams, swindles and hoodwinks would you find in a medieval marketplace?

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Did ancient empires ever co-exist peacefully?

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How did monks hand-copying texts respond to the invention of the printing press? Did print end scribes right away, or did hand-written books live on for a while as a sort of prestige item? Did the monks worry they were being made irrelevant?

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In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the characters frequently talk in third-person. Is this how Romans spoke, or how Elizabethans thought Romans spoke?

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Did Australian aboriginals ever put up a large, organized resistance to colonists?

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I've heard it said that the Greeks were the only people to invent pure mathematics. How accurate is this statement?

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A common fantasy trope is a child abandoned by parents and raised by monks in a monastery. Did this ever actually happen in medieval Europe?

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In medieval Europe, before printing presses, how did someone go about copying a book?

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How did copying texts work in ancient/pre-modern China?

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We know that workers in 19th century England, including children, worked long hours in gruelling conditions, and that this lead to various health problems. Do we have any accounts of the psychological effects of such labour?

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What sort of scams, swindles and hoodwinks would you find in a medieval marketplace?	96
Did ancient empires ever co-exist peacefully?	58
How did monks hand-copying texts respond to the invention of the printing press? Did print end scribes right away, or did hand-written books live on for a while as a sort of prestige item? Did the monks worry they were being made irrelevant?	55
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the characters frequently talk in third-person. Is this how Romans spoke, or how Elizabethans thought Romans spoke?	23
Did Australian aboriginals ever put up a large, organized resistance to colonists?	20
I've heard it said that the Greeks were the only people to invent pure mathematics. How accurate is this statement?	19
A common fantasy trope is a child abandoned by parents and raised by monks in a monastery. Did this ever actually happen in medieval Europe?	16
In medieval Europe, before printing presses, how did someone go about copying a book?	12
How did copying texts work in ancient/pre-modern China?	8
We know that workers in 19th century England, including children, worked long hours in gruelling conditions, and that this lead to various health problems. Do we have any accounts of the psychological effects of such labour?	8