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were infant mortality rates higher in the middle ages or classical times?	6
Before the industrial revaluation craftsmen and artisans got up with the sun rise and stopped when it got dark, or when they felt like it to eat or drink. I was told that in school sevral times, is it an exaggeration?	6
In Downton Abbey there's a subplot involving Russian aristocrats who escaped the purges and travelled to England. the actors playing them speak with (to my ear) modern sounding Russian accents, is that authentic for people from that time and social background?	6
what proportion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem's population (circa AD 1116) were actually Catholic (European migrants or middle eastern converts)? how reliant on backup from Europe, were they in holding down the territory?	6
what was the status of food brought in restaurants or hotels in postwar britain well rationing was still in effect?	6
Suppose you're a common person in Rome in 252. How worried would you be about the Cyprian plague (IE probably a smallpox outbreak) infecting you or your family?	6
What's the earliest Greek source that makes reference to the the Romans?	6
did pre-roman celtic britain have a leisure class (IE people who don't need to do any kind of manual labor to live)?	6
were living standards in North Korea (as defined by the borders of the modern state) worse in the 1930s or the 1970s?	6
Suppose it's the 16th or 17th and you're a European explorer who's just come ashore in an unexplored part of the Americas. What's the first thing you're likely to do upon encountering natives? How do you go about trying to communicate with them?	6

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