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After the Romans defeated a kingdom's or tribe's armies, how did they maintain control of the area?

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I've read that hunter-gatherer societies generally maintained fewer people at a higher average quality of life than agrarian societies. What was the mechanism for lower population?

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To what extent did the Roman Empire have a policy of keeping the barbarians beyond it's borders divided?

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How long did it take Romans to make a shirt of Lorica Hamata (chainmail)?

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Were pike formations vulnerable to arrows?

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After Rome was no longer the capital of the Roman Empire, did the Empire still ship massive volumes of grain and other foodstuffs to the city?

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Did the Red Army really have 35,000 tanks in 1941?

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How did contemporaries refer to historical monarch with numbers? Eg Alexander IV, Artaxerxes II, Phillip II? Did they use the numbers? If not how did they distinguish them?

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Peter Jennings (or other 90s network news anchor) confronted in Jerusalem by man carrying pistol?

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How much drunker was the average person in history compared to today?

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After the Romans defeated a kingdom's or tribe's armies, how did they maintain control of the area?	3
I've read that hunter-gatherer societies generally maintained fewer people at a higher average quality of life than agrarian societies. What was the mechanism for lower population?	2
To what extent did the Roman Empire have a policy of keeping the barbarians beyond it's borders divided?	2
How long did it take Romans to make a shirt of Lorica Hamata (chainmail)?	2
Were pike formations vulnerable to arrows?	2
After Rome was no longer the capital of the Roman Empire, did the Empire still ship massive volumes of grain and other foodstuffs to the city?	2
Did the Red Army really have 35,000 tanks in 1941?	1
How did contemporaries refer to historical monarch with numbers? Eg Alexander IV, Artaxerxes II, Phillip II? Did they use the numbers? If not how did they distinguish them?	1
Peter Jennings (or other 90s network news anchor) confronted in Jerusalem by man carrying pistol?	1
How much drunker was the average person in history compared to today?	1