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how do we know the Uffington White Horse is in fact a depiction of a Horse?	8
I once read a sci-fi story where some people go back in time and visit Boston in 1250BC. The Indians they encounter are extremely patriarchal and one of the characters suggests that it was probably corn farming that improved women’s standing later on. Is the writer referencing a real theory?	8
there's a BBC docudrama where Michael Sheen played Nero. When Rome burns, before Nero has revealed his plan to rebuild, the guys on the senate are talking about moving the capital to a different city. Was that ever seriously considered after the Great Fire of Rome?	8
I visited a ruined monastery in the Norfolk Broads today. One of the info points said that peasants broke in a burnt all the church records during the revolt in 1381. Why would they do that? weren't most/all English peasants Catholic at the time?	8
Was Newtonian Physics known in Japan before 1853?	8
Do you think it’s more meaningful to say that ancient Egypt ended in the fourth century BC (when Alexander invaded) or in the first century BC (when the Romans invaded)?	8
"East of Eden" is there a particular reason why the people who contrived the Book of Genesis believed the Garden of Eden was east relative to them?	8
Which had more cultivated farm land (relative to total land area) in AD1299, England or (what would become) New England?	8
Suppose you are Japanese American on the crew of a US ship when Pearl Harbor happens. What is going to happen to you when your ship gets the news?	8
did cities in ancient Egypt and ancient mesopotamia (circa 1000 BC) have street food vendors? if "yes" what sort of thing would they have sold?	8

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