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imagine a city in Mesopotamia in AD 394 (under the Sasanian Empire), imagine the same city in AD 994 (under the Abbasid Caliphate). what differences would you see? how many of them would be a result of the introduction of Islam?

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Is it true native Americans visited Europe in the second century AD?

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Were tenements (or Insula) only present in ancient Rome, and the other really large cities in the Empire, or were they present in every city and town?

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What's the oldest hand to hand martial art form in North East Asia (IE Japan, China or Korea)?

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how did stock trading work before instant communication? like if you were in LA in the 1860s wouldn't the info you'd be getting from New York be out of date?

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were the roman laws concerning the killing of slaves at all strictly kept?

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did you not have to be formally PHD educated in a subject to teach it at university level a century ago?

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Around the 2nd or 1st century BC lions went exstict in Europe. Were the Romans and/or Greeks aware that they'd died out because people over hunted them?

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After the revolution when did trade between the United States and Britain return to what it'd been like before any of the conflict started?

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When did armies in Europe (or more particularly British armies, if that's too broad) stop relying on camp followers for their amenities and amusements?

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imagine a city in Mesopotamia in AD 394 (under the Sasanian Empire), imagine the same city in AD 994 (under the Abbasid Caliphate). what differences would you see? how many of them would be a result of the introduction of Islam?	7
Is it true native Americans visited Europe in the second century AD?	7
Were tenements (or Insula) only present in ancient Rome, and the other really large cities in the Empire, or were they present in every city and town?	7
What's the oldest hand to hand martial art form in North East Asia (IE Japan, China or Korea)?	7
how did stock trading work before instant communication? like if you were in LA in the 1860s wouldn't the info you'd be getting from New York be out of date?	7
were the roman laws concerning the killing of slaves at all strictly kept?	7
did you not have to be formally PHD educated in a subject to teach it at university level a century ago?	7
Around the 2nd or 1st century BC lions went exstict in Europe. Were the Romans and/or Greeks aware that they'd died out because people over hunted them?	7
After the revolution when did trade between the United States and Britain return to what it'd been like before any of the conflict started?	7
When did armies in Europe (or more particularly British armies, if that's too broad) stop relying on camp followers for their amenities and amusements?	7