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Did the ancient Greeks (circa Plato's death, if it maters) have a winter festival around this time of year?	7
did people in the western world associate stars with reaching for unrealistic and/or unknown goals, before mankind realized they weren't just holes in the celestial spheres?	7
is it true every body in Britain was nomadic until around 1500BC?	7
my home town has existed since AD600, the main local church was built in the 1750s. Was commissioning new churches something the CofE was doing a lot 260s years ago?	7
By the first century I presume the Greeks & Romans has charted the entire Mediterranean. Were they at all troubled by the apparent lack of the various supernatural islands people like Jason or Odysseus were supposed to have found?	7
What became of all the slave managed Roman aristocrat owned estates after the fall of Rome? How did the Italian countryside go from that to medieval peasant feudalism?	7
I read a scifi story once set partly in Bronze Age Eroupe, in the story some time travels meet a tribe who speak what is implied to be the root language between Celtic and Germanic. The book is set in 1250BC, does that seem like a plausible time frame for that split?	7
were there any anglo-saxon (pre norman) philosophers?	7
I've read that ancient Rome had tenement blocks like early modern industrial cities did. Before Rome were there many/any cities (IE in Eurasia or Africa) that were crowded enough that they needed to have tenements for the poor?	7
imagine a medieval islamic city in North africa AD1150 imagine an ancient egyptian city in 1150BC. Obviously all the temples, palaces and official building would look totally different, but what differences would you see in how normal people's houses were laid out and constructed?	7

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