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Grave of the fireflies starts with the child main character dying of starvation homeless in a train station, the people around him act like this kind of thing is common in Japan by the end of war. Was it?	229
Jojo Rabbit starts with the main character visiting a Hitler Youth camp in the German countryside. The Film starts in the summer of 1944, is it realistic for the Hitler Youth to still be doing that kind of thing well the third reich was in such dire straits?	229
In HBO Rome there's a scene where Lucius Vorens says that the stars are holes in the celestial spheres. Is it realistic that a common Roman would know about the aristotelian model of the cosmos?	229
suppose you're a foreign sailor and you accidentally come assure in Japan in the 1700s during the Edo Period. what will happen to you?	227
There's several Roman Emperors (Caligula, Elagabalus, Carinus, etc) who have a reputation for being sexually perverted. In those types of cases is it usually a justified reputation, or just the result of later historians wanting to paint them in a bad light?	226
suppose you live in Italy in 90 BCE. would you (likely) think of yourself as entirely Roman, or would you still identify as whatever culture (etruscan, latin, ect) your ancestors had belonged to before the romans conquered them?	225
in HBO's Rome when the city is cut off from the African grain supply, the population is hit by a food shortage so bad people start eating stay dogs to survive. Was the real Rome really that reliant on imports?	225
There’s a bit in Emperor (2012 film about the occupation of Japan) where Bonner Fellers goes into a normal Japanese bar for a beer. During the early days would high ups in the occupying force have really just gone out alone and mingled with the general population like that?	222
In 1466 would the natives in Cuba have been aware of the Mayans or the Aztecs? If "yes" did the trade with either? If so what?	218
By the second century AD killing your slaves was nominally illegal in Rome. How likerly were you to actually get prosecuted for doing it?	218

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