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If a castle has a moat around it, and the outer walls needed repair, how did they do it?

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Is "culture decay" a real thing?

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We're it not for the Rosetta stone, would we be able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics even with today's technology and knowledge on linguistics?

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I have a question on Mansa Musa, and his over-abundance of gold he had.

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How many people fleed Germany in the final years leading up to ww2?

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Am a Dark Ages farmer in Central Europe who just found a chunk of rock salt the size of a basketball. How rich am I?

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If you lived in the USSR, and had an "important" job to society, could you still just quit?

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I feel like growing up I've always heard that "video games will ruin your brain". Did people ever feel that way about people playing more "ancient" games like chess, checkers, etc?

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Modern man often gazes in awe into a star-filled night sky. I believe modern people are "in awe" as we can somewhat grasp the the immensity of the Universe. Did pre-industrial people feel the same way while looking at the night sky? Even though they didn't understand what stars were?

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It seems to me that basically up to the US civil war, that guns really weren't all that accurate, and the bullets did very little damage compared to modern weapons. So why weren't crossbows more heavily used up to the industrial revolution?

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If a castle has a moat around it, and the outer walls needed repair, how did they do it?	1
Is "culture decay" a real thing?	1
We're it not for the Rosetta stone, would we be able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics even with today's technology and knowledge on linguistics?	1
I have a question on Mansa Musa, and his over-abundance of gold he had.	1
How many people fleed Germany in the final years leading up to ww2?	1
Am a Dark Ages farmer in Central Europe who just found a chunk of rock salt the size of a basketball. How rich am I?	1
If you lived in the USSR, and had an "important" job to society, could you still just quit?	1
I feel like growing up I've always heard that "video games will ruin your brain". Did people ever feel that way about people playing more "ancient" games like chess, checkers, etc?	1
Modern man often gazes in awe into a star-filled night sky. I believe modern people are "in awe" as we can somewhat grasp the the immensity of the Universe. Did pre-industrial people feel the same way while looking at the night sky? Even though they didn't understand what stars were?	0
It seems to me that basically up to the US civil war, that guns really weren't all that accurate, and the bullets did very little damage compared to modern weapons. So why weren't crossbows more heavily used up to the industrial revolution?	0