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Around the time of Rome's legendary founding (753 BC), what sort of equipment did early Roman soldiers use in times of conflict?
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Are Indo-Europeans genetically distinct from other European populations (Basques, Uralics, etc)? Is there a certain gene that Indo-Europeans all share in common with each other and nobody else? Or is "Indo-European" simply a description of people who speak languages within that family?
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What was the average lifespan of Roman coins? And how long after being minted would Roman coins cease to have monetary value?
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Surrounded by Greek and Cyrillic script (in addition to close contact with the middle east), why did writers of the Turkish language use a variant of Latin script to write?
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