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suppose it's 1866 and you are young low class Chinese male who wants to emigrate to California to work there. How would you most likely make the passage? how much (in terms of material wealth) would the trip likely cost you?	6
how would the strife in 1600s BC Egypt, have effected daily life?	6
when I was little my grandmother told me that the ripples on puddles were fairies dancing on the water (rather then in actuality raindrops too fast & small to see). I always wondered if that was some old folk thing, or just something she made up?	6
125 years ago how common were Buddhist monks and/or priests in China? What proportion of the male population were they?	6
In Jamestown (A TV drama set in colonial Virginia in 1619) the English characters derogatorily refer to the Native Americans as "monkeys", did the real Jamestown colonists do that?	6
In ancient Egypt how unusual would literacy be for someone other than a scribe?	6
what (if anything) happened to you during the WW2 if you ignored the blackout rules and made a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night?	6
in most of the recreations & illustrations I could find Xia and Shang chinese are depicted wearing the same sort of Kimono like Robes chinese aristocrats were wearing right up until the end of the empire. is that accurate? if "yes" why was chinese fashion so consistent over such a long time period?	6
Wikipedia says that Irish speaking people immigrated to the isle of Man around the 5th century AD. does that mean they just colonized empty parts of the island, or that they violently invaded and dominated the native population?	6
do you think people in ancient times had the same sense of their world being in constant flux, that we do?	6

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