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What dictates whether we count someone as a legitimate Roman emporer or a usurper?

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Imagine Beijing in 1294 (under the Mongols/Yuan) and in 1414 (under the Ming). Aside from the presence of the forbidden city, how would daily life in the city be different at those two points in time?

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suppose you're a beast merchant in AD469 Rome, and you accidentally breed a Liger. How much money do You think you could get for it from a Senator hoping to please the mob by sacrificing exotic chimeras in the arena?

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Back when Britain had capital punishment was there any legal way to stop an exicution in the days between the sentence and the hanging if new evidence was found?

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what would the living conditions of a normal person in a large Indian city, have been like in 1920?

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suppose you're native american born in (what will become) Maryland in 1416, how much does your sex effect/determine what's expected of/from you by your society?

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back in the middle ages (circa AD1057) what motivated people to choose to live in London before mechanized agricultural and factories reduced the demand for farm Laborers and rural craftsmen?

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who lived in north Africa, west of Egypt and before Carthage?

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yesterday I was listening to a podcast about the history of Mormonism. At one point the host offhandedly mentions that some people in the early 1800s thought the native Americans were descended from shipwrecked Romans. was that a real hypothesis/theory? if "yes" how popular was it?

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Were freeman (IE slaves who'd been set free) allowed in the roman baths? Or to watch games in the arena?

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What dictates whether we count someone as a legitimate Roman emporer or a usurper?	6
Imagine Beijing in 1294 (under the Mongols/Yuan) and in 1414 (under the Ming). Aside from the presence of the forbidden city, how would daily life in the city be different at those two points in time?	6
suppose you're a beast merchant in AD469 Rome, and you accidentally breed a Liger. How much money do You think you could get for it from a Senator hoping to please the mob by sacrificing exotic chimeras in the arena?	6
Back when Britain had capital punishment was there any legal way to stop an exicution in the days between the sentence and the hanging if new evidence was found?	6
what would the living conditions of a normal person in a large Indian city, have been like in 1920?	6
suppose you're native american born in (what will become) Maryland in 1416, how much does your sex effect/determine what's expected of/from you by your society?	6
back in the middle ages (circa AD1057) what motivated people to choose to live in London before mechanized agricultural and factories reduced the demand for farm Laborers and rural craftsmen?	6
who lived in north Africa, west of Egypt and before Carthage?	6
yesterday I was listening to a podcast about the history of Mormonism. At one point the host offhandedly mentions that some people in the early 1800s thought the native Americans were descended from shipwrecked Romans. was that a real hypothesis/theory? if "yes" how popular was it?	6
Were freeman (IE slaves who'd been set free) allowed in the roman baths? Or to watch games in the arena?	6