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Do we know if Rome "bad neighborhoods" and if so then how did they change over time?	32
I'm a moderately wealthy Mediterranean merchant/trader living around 200 BC. How well traveled could I reasonably be, and who would I have the most difficulty doing business with due to range or political/security climate?	23
Is there any media that provides a historically accurate and in-depth view of ancient Greek society?	13
Is there a record of how profitable banditry was in medieval Europe, how much was lost from economies to banditry, and whether being a bandit was necessarily a lifetime career or if it was common for bandits to hoard enough to start a comfortable life somewhere they wouldn't be recognized?	11
Are there any good documentaries that follow a similar format to the 'Great War' channel on youtube-patreon, but take a larger scale view of human history (i.e. parallel growth and fall of civilizations around the world rather than parallel battles around the world in a few years)?	8
It's around 2500 BC in Egypt, and I'm an upper-tier noble of considerable means. If I decide to travel and see as much of the world as possible in my lifetime then how far could I expect to reach with the knowledge, technology, wealth, and supporters at my disposal?	8
Are there any strategies, tactics, formations, combat techniques, or military technologies that we have a record of Roman legions training in, but that we don't have a record of them ever using in combat?	8
If you were a roman centurion leading your century against a practically identical roman century in a pitched battle, what orders would you have in your repertoire to gain an advantage against your counterpart after solid line engagement had taken place?	6
Pre-european "discovery" and colonization, what where some peaks in pan-american population?	5
How quickly could 17th-19th century lancers wound an individual retreating foe, clear their lance of the victim, and prepare to strike another?	4

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