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Today people in the northern parts of the Europe frequently take advantage of the ease of travel to holiday in the warmer southern parts. In the time of the Rome did wealthy romans in the north of the empire ever travel south just for the sake of enjoying a warmer climate part of the year?	8
When did maize farming reach the part of north America where Maryland now is?	8
in Chernobyl (HBO series) the nuclear plant has no computer stations in the control room, just very bulky, very analogue looking, consoles. What Russian nuclear plants have really not had any computers in the mid/late 1980s?	8
Suppose you're an able bodied Russian peasant farmer living sometime between 1870 and 1970. In that time scale what would be the best specific time for you to live in with regard to having food a shelter?	8
from 292 to 294 the usurper Achilleus took over ruled from Alexandria. would Rome have been cut off from Egyptian goods (the most important of which being grain) for that entire two year stretch?	8
you know the busts of roman Emperors, and other famous Romans, you can see in history and/or art museums. What sort of social standing did the artists who made them have in ancient Rome?	8
in the novel I'm reading there's a bit where traders are traveling through the Sasanian Empire (circa AD265) and they encounter a group of Roman soldiers who were captured and allowed to set up a pseudo-roman settlement in Persian territory. Did the sassanids really treat roman soldiers like that?	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
In HBO Rome when ever someone wants to dispose of a body they dump it in the sewers. Where did Rome's sewers let out? Were corpses often found there?	8
In Rome the characters, weather at home or at a tavern, never seem to drink anything but red wine, they even mock some Hindu traders for not having any. Did the Romans seriously never bother with any other alcoholic drinks?	8

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