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Mobs and mafias in Middle Ages? Where there underground crime syndicates in the Middle Ages? What were the levels like, how big where they and why were they around? Did they traffic drugs? How feared by the King and his men were they or were they more like small gangs rather than a mafia?

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What technologies did native Americans have better than westerners? What sciences did they have better?

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What extent did central and northern Americans use metal? Why didn’t it catch on?

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Chichimec people fired arrows sometimes tipped with copper, why didn’t they make swords? Does this count them as “copper people” or is it too little to qualify?

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Is there any evidence of real covens during or around the witch scare? Since I assume not, any evidence the convicted practiced paganism or folk religion? We’re people killed for folk medicine use?

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In 843 a group of Norse pirates took the island of Noirmoutier on the coast of France. Another in 858 on the island of Oissel (in seine upstream from Rouen). Oissel held against an attack from Charles the Bald. No resources, far from home in enemy territory. How did they survive, hold out, and eat?

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What were premodern mobs like? Like Middle Ages, early American colonies, 1500s? Any notable ones? What did they sell or do? Any drugs or alcohol “dealers”?

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What were some ways natives were technological more effiecent or advanced than europeans?

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Indigenous Scared Lands

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Premarital sex in youth before the church? What was it like was it common, what society was the most open about premarital (or just teenage) sex? Why?

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Mobs and mafias in Middle Ages? Where there underground crime syndicates in the Middle Ages? What were the levels like, how big where they and why were they around? Did they traffic drugs? How feared by the King and his men were they or were they more like small gangs rather than a mafia?	35
What technologies did native Americans have better than westerners? What sciences did they have better?	14
What extent did central and northern Americans use metal? Why didn’t it catch on?	12
Chichimec people fired arrows sometimes tipped with copper, why didn’t they make swords? Does this count them as “copper people” or is it too little to qualify?	9
Is there any evidence of real covens during or around the witch scare? Since I assume not, any evidence the convicted practiced paganism or folk religion? We’re people killed for folk medicine use?	7
In 843 a group of Norse pirates took the island of Noirmoutier on the coast of France. Another in 858 on the island of Oissel (in seine upstream from Rouen). Oissel held against an attack from Charles the Bald. No resources, far from home in enemy territory. How did they survive, hold out, and eat?	4
What were premodern mobs like? Like Middle Ages, early American colonies, 1500s? Any notable ones? What did they sell or do? Any drugs or alcohol “dealers”?	4
What were some ways natives were technological more effiecent or advanced than europeans?	4
Indigenous Scared Lands	2
Premarital sex in youth before the church? What was it like was it common, what society was the most open about premarital (or just teenage) sex? Why?	0