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Was the "asian squat," once common in Classical/Medieval Mediterranean or pre-Columbian American societies?	6	AskHistorians
Columbus was a bad person by the standards of today. Was he a bad person by the standards of his day?	6	AskHistorians
What was life like for the Greek scholars who fled the fall of Constantinople for the safety of Italy, bringing their lost-to-the-west texts with them? Who were their patrons? Where did they teach? Did they have trouble with the language barrier?	6	AskHistorians
The Sasanian Persian Empire established control of Yemen in distant southern Arabia, far from their heartland. Were they able to use this as a base to stop the lucrative Roman Red Sea trade with India? What was the purpose of conquering the territory?	6	AskHistorians
The Roman Senate seemed hidebound during its last few hundred years, unable to compromise or stray from tradition to seek practical solutions to its many pressing problems. Was there a movement to chart a different course?	6	AskHistorians
The emperor Hadrian seems been mercurial — magnanimous and farsighted one moment and jealous and petty the next. But did he go from mercurial to cruel and unhinged toward the end of his life? Or were his Patrician chroniclers just expressing their dislike of him? How "bad" was Hadrian?	6	AskHistorians
Sparta is known for its skilled warriors. But in antiquity it was also famous for the moderation of its men. Athens reveled in luxury while Sparta sought moderation and simple living, the story goes. Did Spartans really eschew luxury and wealth? Did they advocate for simple living?	6	AskHistorians
The southern economy was devastated by the US Civil War. How long did it take to transition from slave labor to free labor and how did this affect GDP?	6	AskHistorians
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine makes King George III out to be an uncultured brute. Is this accurate, or propaganda? Did Americans think of their king as a boorish despot before people like Paine demeaned him?	6	AskHistorians
The emperor Julian the Apostate reopened the Delphic oracle and rebuilt the temple of Apollo in a bid to revive paganism. He apparently received several oracles from the oracle. Would there have been any remnants of the old cult left by this time? Was the old Pythia still alive?	6	AskHistorians

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