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300 years ago how plausible would Europeans (at least educated ones) have considered the notion of finding a previously unknown, large scale Urban civilisation somewhere in the unexplored (by them at least) parts of North America?	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
how did the native people of the Canary Islands live before the Spanish took over? if I walked into a Guanches village in 1116 what would I see people doing in order to support themselves, what would the dwellings look like, what would the tools and weapons look like and be made of?	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
I've seen a lot of photos of samurai in armour from the very end of the Edo period. As I understand it Japan had been at relative peace for decades at that point, did that amour actually serve any practical purpose? if "no" why did they still have it?	10
why did European dress become dominant all across the earth?	10
Suppose I live in Yorkshire in 717, suppose I travelled to London. How different would my spoken English be from that I'd encounter there? Would I & typical London person find each other mutually intelligible?	10
Suppose you are a Roman living in AD 300 and you want learn what Egypt was like before you or the Greeks conquered it. Assuming you were well read and typical, who would you likely consider to be the most reliable historian on the subject?	10
I've seen god knows how many TV documentaries that suggest Santorini was the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis. Do you think it's more or less likely that it's just a coincidence?	10
[META] the Mods originally offered me a different flair title but I asked for "Interesting Inquirer" instead because I like alliteration. Does the rest of this community(for the most part) like the title because I don't think it's fair that everybody be stuck with something I made up on the spot?	10

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