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Was it theoretically possible for someone to be "relocated" from Kiev to Beijing after the Mongol invasion of the Rus'?

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Were there different Latin dialects and/or accents in the Roman Empire? Would someone from the city of Rome know someone was from, say, Valentia, based on how they talked?

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How did ancient Greeks know which house was theirs in cities built in the Hippodamian Plan?

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How did Ottoman sultan Beyezid II go about inviting Jews from Italy and Iberia to settle in Constantinople? I.e. what were the practical measures one could take to reach out to such a relatively high number of people abroad in the 15th century?

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What was the purpose of a "throne room"?

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Why didn't Portugal have any colonies in the Caribbean?

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What's the historic difference between prince, duke, count and baron?

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The concept of Heaven appears a lot in Chinese history (the 'Mandate of Heaven', for example), but what exactly did the Chinese think Heaven was like?

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Did the Spaniards know or at least suspect that the spread of smallpox in the New World was caused by their arrival?

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I've read in William of Rubruck's accounts of the Mongols that he met the nephew of an English bishop and a woman from Lorraine in Qara Qorum. How did they get there?

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Was it theoretically possible for someone to be "relocated" from Kiev to Beijing after the Mongol invasion of the Rus'?	50
Were there different Latin dialects and/or accents in the Roman Empire? Would someone from the city of Rome know someone was from, say, Valentia, based on how they talked?	35
How did ancient Greeks know which house was theirs in cities built in the Hippodamian Plan?	34
How did Ottoman sultan Beyezid II go about inviting Jews from Italy and Iberia to settle in Constantinople? I.e. what were the practical measures one could take to reach out to such a relatively high number of people abroad in the 15th century?	29
What was the purpose of a "throne room"?	20
Why didn't Portugal have any colonies in the Caribbean?	19
What's the historic difference between prince, duke, count and baron?	19
The concept of Heaven appears a lot in Chinese history (the 'Mandate of Heaven', for example), but what exactly did the Chinese think Heaven was like?	16
Did the Spaniards know or at least suspect that the spread of smallpox in the New World was caused by their arrival?	15
I've read in William of Rubruck's accounts of the Mongols that he met the nephew of an English bishop and a woman from Lorraine in Qara Qorum. How did they get there?	15