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3000 years ago would the people in southern Arabia have been riding horses mounted yet?	5
I read a time travel story once that had a bit in it set in 1250BC Olmec country. When the Olmec fight the time travelers they use Weapons with obsidian blades and clubs with shark teeth embedded them. is that at all consistent with known mesoamerican weaponry?	5
Did Ramsay MacDonald meet with the king on weekly basses, like the current MP does the Queen? If "yes" did many/any people on the British Left complain about the first Labour PM carrying on that tradition?	5
Suppose I went to Rome in AD454 (IE decades after the empire went christian) & went to the Temple of Jupiter. Would the building just be closed & empty, or would it be being used for a different function?	5
Which was more normal if an unwed teenage girl got pregnant in America 100 years, a shot gun wedding or adoption?	5
Were scholars in 18th/early 19th century Europe/America aware there were urban civilizations (such as the Kush) in the parts of Africa they would have considered "black", before there were any in northern Europe? If "yes" how did they square that with the "naturally inferior" argument for slavery?	5
would the levels of street crime in imperial Rome (circa AD250 if it maters) have been high compared to somewhere like Juarez or Guatemala city in the present day?	5
I'm told that there's a bit in Livy's history were he speculates about what would have happened had Alexander turned west & ran into the Romans. Is there any indication Alexander was planning to hit Italy eventually (had he lived)? If "yes" is it likely that Livy would have known about such plans?	5
300 years ago did most/any people in Japan believe in reincarnation?	5
were most sea men in the 18th century from the Westcountry, or is that just an invention of pirate movies?	5

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