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If I visited a medieval English town circa 1,000 A.D. with 1,200 inhabitants, how many shops would I find? Would they have a market square with lots of vendors? Would traveling merchants come through to hawk their wares?
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If Sparta wanted to take the Pelopenisan League to war, it had to submit the proposal to the council of the Pelopenisna League, in which all member states theoretically had a vote. How independent was this league in reality? Did they mostly just do what Sparta wanted?
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How did Jerusalem have room for the thousands of Jews — from inside Isreal and abroad — who arrived at the capital? Massive tent cities outside the walls? Even in the Roman era the city was reliant on wells and imported much of its food, so how did they provide for the pilgrims?
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Pederasty was common in ancient Greece, and sometimes occurred openly in ancient Rome. Were Pederasty and/or other open homosexual relationships common in the rest of the ancient world?
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Flax seeds are a "health food," linked with reduced cancer incidence and lower blood pressure. But beyond flax oil, did historical cultures consume flax seed regularly? How was it incorporated into the diet?
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Did Albert Einstein describe compound interest as "the most powerful force in the universe"? If so, what was the context of this claim?
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US Army boot camps are famous for trying to "break down," new recruits and crush any signs of rebellion. Was this approach put in place because many draftees didn't want to fall in line during the Vietnam War? Was this an attempt to cull rebelliousness among its troops?
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