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How do general living standards (availability of food, money, physical health, Education, ect) in china and Japan compare in 1707 (long before the Meiji Restoration) and in 1907 (a couple generations after the Meiji Restoration and half a decade before the end of the Chinese empire)?	6
A grand parent once told me schools had to hire a lot of women and bring retired teachers in during the war due to all the young male teachers being called up. Did universities have any problems keeping courses going when proffessors were called up?	6
in the 1100s to what extent did England, Ireland & Scotland regard the Kingdom of the Isles as an independent entity?	6
2222 years ago would the Kush (the ancestors of modern Nubians) have considered the peoples of western/northern Europe to be "barbarians" as the Greeks, Carthaginians, Egyptians, and Romans did at the time?	6
I listened to a history Podcast that said in the late 1060s the North Of England experienced a famine because the Normans deliberately destroyed people's crops and livestock. Is that accurate? If "yes" how much of the country was effected?	6
my high school English teacher once told me Prospero just throws his spell books in the sea, rather than burning them, because people in the 1600s thought books so valuable the idea of destroying them would have scandalized Shakespeare's audience.Did people back then really view books so reverently?	6
I remember once being told Nixon was made to turn the nuclear football over to Ford ahead of schedule because they were afraid he might start a nuclear war out of spite. Is that true?	5
what sort of social standing did people who were wealthy as a result of trade have in Edo period Japanese society?	5
how did the Greeks and/or Romans explain the fact you can't see Apollo's chariot when you look at the sun?	5
When was the first time after the war of Independence the US and UK governments would have considered each other allies?	5

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