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How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?

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Would people in Britain have been awar that the Romans were coming before they got there in AD43?

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Suppose you're living in the late Roman Empire (276 to 476) and you're putting on a street play about Spartacus. Would it be most politic to make Spartacus or Crassus the protagonist?

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In 1714 who had more money and more food, the average New England inhabitant or the average England inhabitant?

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I remember once being told that in the Middle Ages and before young children were very just given diapers/loincloths and rapped in blankets when it was cold because the cost of colth made it too expensive to give fitted clothes to someone who'd grow out of them so fast. Is that at all true?

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did the native Americans (in New England specifically) have a mid winter Celebration like most european cultures do (IE a christmas analogue)?

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When the European arrived in New England did the natives have any idea who they were?

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How often did plains Indians (circa 1450) have to do Buffalo jumps (IE drive bison over a cliff)? How much meat did they typically get from doing it and how long did it last them?

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in the 18th century were there any people who thought orchestral music was terrible, despite what an obvious advancement over what came before it seems to us?

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Suppose I'm an English peasant in AD 1250 and I kill a fox (or some other small predator) on my strip of land. Do I eat it or throw it away?

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How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?	11
Would people in Britain have been awar that the Romans were coming before they got there in AD43?	11
Suppose you're living in the late Roman Empire (276 to 476) and you're putting on a street play about Spartacus. Would it be most politic to make Spartacus or Crassus the protagonist?	11
In 1714 who had more money and more food, the average New England inhabitant or the average England inhabitant?	11
I remember once being told that in the Middle Ages and before young children were very just given diapers/loincloths and rapped in blankets when it was cold because the cost of colth made it too expensive to give fitted clothes to someone who'd grow out of them so fast. Is that at all true?	11
did the native Americans (in New England specifically) have a mid winter Celebration like most european cultures do (IE a christmas analogue)?	11
When the European arrived in New England did the natives have any idea who they were?	11
How often did plains Indians (circa 1450) have to do Buffalo jumps (IE drive bison over a cliff)? How much meat did they typically get from doing it and how long did it last them?	11
in the 18th century were there any people who thought orchestral music was terrible, despite what an obvious advancement over what came before it seems to us?	11
Suppose I'm an English peasant in AD 1250 and I kill a fox (or some other small predator) on my strip of land. Do I eat it or throw it away?	11