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Osamu Tezuka once wrote a a manga called Phoenix. Both the manga and the anime based on it, start in Japan in the mid third century AD, both depict Jōmon period hunter gatherers and rice farmers coexisting in Japan at the same time. Is the particularly plausible for the time period?	6
why didn't the Māori just farm moas if they liked eating them so much?	6
Imagine being in Constantinople in 398, Imagine being in Constantinople in 1398. Besides the presence of the Hagia Sophia, what differences would you see?	6
how different Is what would have been the dominant religion in the India of 2000 years ago, from modern Hinduism?	6
in Boardwalk Empire Nelson Van Alden becomes a Prohibition Agent because his religion condemns alcohol. In real life, was it particularly common for people to become Prohibition Agents for religious reasons?	6
I once saw a TV documentary about the history of the Saxons, at one point they showed a grave where a Saxon man was buried in Roman armour. In the 3rd and 4th centuries how normal/unusual was it for Germanic men to join the Roman army?	6
did the native Americans John Rolfe's group met in Virginia follow a religion that was at all related to the religion of those the pilgrims met in and around Plymouth?	6
what crops and domesticated animals would the British have had just before the Romans invaded?	6
There's an episode of Boardwalk empire where Nucky makes a joke about Jimmy fighting World War 1 "to make the world safe for democracy". in 1920 would anybody have been using that kind of language with regard to America’s involvement in the War?	6
Supposed it's 75BCE and I start moving south along the African East Coast, beginning in Egypt. Where will I first arrive at a place where people live of of hunter-gathering rather than agriculture?	6

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