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What were Greek and Roman attitudes towards foreign languages like?

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In a footnote to my copy of the Eclogues, the possibility of Virgil having read the Book of Isaiah is mentioned regarding the fourth, "messianic" Eclogue. How large was the intellectual exchange between Judaic/Near Eastern and Roman cultures at the time?

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What happened to the Tokugawa-era Japanese merchant class during the industrial revolution and rise of large corporations after the Meiji Restoration?

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What caused Indian tribes in the southwestern United States—barring smaller population movements in the last centuries—to maintain a relative degree of cultural/linguistic sovereignty? Or am I wrong in assuming this in the first place?

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By what criteria was something deemed worthy of publishing and preserving in classical antiquity? What are the registers/genres of writing we've lost because of this?

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How have restaurant kitchens changed over the past few hundred years? What about the businesses and systems that supply them?

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How did scholars in antiquity and the Middle Ages explain the irregular distribution of stars in the night sky?

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Why do a lot of events and descriptions in classical Indian epics (and their later representations) seem to involve such large numbers?

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How were the major roads and inns along them maintained throughout medieval/early modern Japanese history?

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Before the shifts that started around the year 1500, what were the world's most linguistically/culturally diverse cities? What about in the centuries to follow?

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What were Greek and Roman attitudes towards foreign languages like?	43
In a footnote to my copy of the Eclogues, the possibility of Virgil having read the Book of Isaiah is mentioned regarding the fourth, "messianic" Eclogue. How large was the intellectual exchange between Judaic/Near Eastern and Roman cultures at the time?	15
What happened to the Tokugawa-era Japanese merchant class during the industrial revolution and rise of large corporations after the Meiji Restoration?	10
What caused Indian tribes in the southwestern United States—barring smaller population movements in the last centuries—to maintain a relative degree of cultural/linguistic sovereignty? Or am I wrong in assuming this in the first place?	9
By what criteria was something deemed worthy of publishing and preserving in classical antiquity? What are the registers/genres of writing we've lost because of this?	7
How have restaurant kitchens changed over the past few hundred years? What about the businesses and systems that supply them?	5
How did scholars in antiquity and the Middle Ages explain the irregular distribution of stars in the night sky?	4
Why do a lot of events and descriptions in classical Indian epics (and their later representations) seem to involve such large numbers?	2
How were the major roads and inns along them maintained throughout medieval/early modern Japanese history?	1
Before the shifts that started around the year 1500, what were the world's most linguistically/culturally diverse cities? What about in the centuries to follow?	1