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If I were a Roman slave, what's to stop me from running away and building a new life anywhere else in the empire?

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Lots of texts from ancient times come to us through the work of monks copying them. How did they choose which ones to save?

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How was the ability to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs lost? When and where could I find the last person to be able to read them, and was he/she famous at the time?

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When and where were the last chariot races held in the territory of what is known as the Western Roman Empire?

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During the Cold War, did the Soviet Union ever try to influence elections in the United States or other NATO countries?

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Just how bad was the opiod epidemic in China in the period of the Opium Wars?

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How were albinos treated in the Middle Ages?

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Imagine I'm a Roman patrician, and I went to the games. What experience would I have, and how would it be different from the crowd?

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Why didn't Aramaic become an important language in Christianity?

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In the Principate, what would office holders like the Consuls and Tribunes be doing on a day-to-day basis, considering it was the Emperor who held actual power?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
If I were a Roman slave, what's to stop me from running away and building a new life anywhere else in the empire?	19	AskHistorians
Lots of texts from ancient times come to us through the work of monks copying them. How did they choose which ones to save?	18	AskHistorians
How was the ability to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs lost? When and where could I find the last person to be able to read them, and was he/she famous at the time?	18	AskHistorians
When and where were the last chariot races held in the territory of what is known as the Western Roman Empire?	12	AskHistorians
During the Cold War, did the Soviet Union ever try to influence elections in the United States or other NATO countries?	11	AskHistorians
Just how bad was the opiod epidemic in China in the period of the Opium Wars?	11	AskHistorians
How were albinos treated in the Middle Ages?	11	AskHistorians
Imagine I'm a Roman patrician, and I went to the games. What experience would I have, and how would it be different from the crowd?	10	AskHistorians
Why didn't Aramaic become an important language in Christianity?	10	AskHistorians
In the Principate, what would office holders like the Consuls and Tribunes be doing on a day-to-day basis, considering it was the Emperor who held actual power?	10	AskHistorians