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Tenochtitlan was said to be like the “Venice of the new world” when the Spanish saw it. What possessed them to destroy it and fill in Lake Texcoco with dirt to build Mexico City over it?

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Today, we see that the Roman gods were obvious copies of the Greek pantheon (e.g. Mars being Ares, Apollo being Hermes, Jupiter being Zeus) But was this distinction noticed by the ancient world?

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At what point did people start to realize that they weren’t speaking Latin anymore and they had transitioned to one of the proto-Romance languages?

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Were there any Christian religious events in the years 666 or 1666. Were people more on edge these years?

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Is it true that they tried to make George Washington a king? This sounds hard to believe considering they had just fought a war for independence from a monarchy.

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Did the ancient Greeks actually believe that the gods were at the top of Mt. Olympus? Are there any reports of people climbing to the top of to find the gods?

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What did Hitler think about pro-Nazi Jewish groups like the Association of German National Jews, and the German Vanguard? Did this spare them any of the harshness of the Holocaust?

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Given the story of Mansa Musa debasing the currency wherever he went while on a trip to Mecca. Do we know where any of this gold actually ended up?

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At what point did people stop referring to the Byzantine Empire as the Roman Empire?

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Considering the tales of their far-flung exploits. Did the Norse travelers during the Viking Age have a concept of race? Or is race altogether a more recent concept?

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Tenochtitlan was said to be like the “Venice of the new world” when the Spanish saw it. What possessed them to destroy it and fill in Lake Texcoco with dirt to build Mexico City over it?	2590
Today, we see that the Roman gods were obvious copies of the Greek pantheon (e.g. Mars being Ares, Apollo being Hermes, Jupiter being Zeus) But was this distinction noticed by the ancient world?	666
At what point did people start to realize that they weren’t speaking Latin anymore and they had transitioned to one of the proto-Romance languages?	534
Were there any Christian religious events in the years 666 or 1666. Were people more on edge these years?	155
Is it true that they tried to make George Washington a king? This sounds hard to believe considering they had just fought a war for independence from a monarchy.	106
Did the ancient Greeks actually believe that the gods were at the top of Mt. Olympus? Are there any reports of people climbing to the top of to find the gods?	8
What did Hitler think about pro-Nazi Jewish groups like the Association of German National Jews, and the German Vanguard? Did this spare them any of the harshness of the Holocaust?	6
Given the story of Mansa Musa debasing the currency wherever he went while on a trip to Mecca. Do we know where any of this gold actually ended up?	3
At what point did people stop referring to the Byzantine Empire as the Roman Empire?	1
Considering the tales of their far-flung exploits. Did the Norse travelers during the Viking Age have a concept of race? Or is race altogether a more recent concept?	1