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Did any of the large empires of the B.C.E. period practice any kind of ethnography or anthropology during or after their conquests? Or is it a modern invention?

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If German identity was the product of relatively recent combination of constituent states, how did that national identity become so intense in the 20th century?

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Would Victorians traveling in America have perceived it as exotic or as being relatively similar to their own culture?

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Was it generally safe to walk the streets of Victorian London?

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Did any of the large empires of the B.C.E. period practice any kind of ethnography or anthropology during or after their conquests? Or is it a modern invention?	19
If German identity was the product of relatively recent combination of constituent states, how did that national identity become so intense in the 20th century?	16
Would Victorians traveling in America have perceived it as exotic or as being relatively similar to their own culture?	15
Was it generally safe to walk the streets of Victorian London?	3