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Wikipedia says that Emporer Carinus "abandoned himself to all kinds of debauchery and excess". Is that true or is it something Diocletian, who usurped him, made up to make him look bad?	8
today doctors are seen as very respectable and they make a lot. what was their social standing & pay like in Rome (circa AD250) back when they were less capable of actually helping people?	8
is it true pre-columbian native Americans, had no weapons made of anything better then Obsidian?	8
in Game of thrones the Dothraki eat horse meat when they run out of pillaged food. what meats would real horse riding nomads, such as the Huns or Mongols, have eaten regularly?	8
Suppose I'm in a marketplace in Thebes (Egypt) in 999BC. What can I buy? And how am I expected to pay for it?	8
what were the mayor fears about the future 120 years ago (in the western world)?	8
how much more extensive would the forest cover of Europe have been in 1664BC, than today?	8
I remember once seeing a TV documentary in which the narrator said that William the Conquerer had the Pope's support in 1066. Is that true? If "yes" seeing as they were Catholics too, why didn't the Saxons feel obligated to submit?	8
was it practical to be a hunter by profession (as in someone who goes out and kills animals for the main bulk of their living, instead of for just portion of it or for pleasure) in ancient Egypt, Rome or classical Greece?	8
people tend to imagine that during the Edo period Japan's culture & technological level was utterly stagnate. If you were an old person (80 to 100) living in Japan in 1850, what would you consider to be the biggest changes since you were a child?	8

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