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As a medieval farmer wanting to move into his own place in his village, how exactly would I go about buying or building my own house?
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The Macedonian Phalanx was superseded by the Roman Legion. Pikemen in the late middle ages made all other melee infantry obsolete, and were only superseded in the early 1700s. How did the Macedonian Phalanx and the pikemen of EM Europe differ so as to create such radically different outcomes?
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As anyone who's had to get their drivers license can confirm, living in the modern world requires you to leave a sizable paper trail to even prove that you exist, let alone do anything. How did this state of affairs come about, and was there widespread resistance to our increasing documentation?
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