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The 2010 Robin Hood film has a subplot about boys in Nottingham runningaway to the forest because the crusade has broken up their families. What proportion of adult English men actually went on Richard's crusade?
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When did people in the English speaking world start taking an ignorance of shakespeare's work, as an indicator of a want of culture/Education?
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when the Romans took new territory how did they go about dividing it up among themselves? how much did they typically take themselves (as in for roman estates) and how much (if any) did they leave to tribute paying locals?
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I was just listening to a historical set in AD256. There was a bit in where a Roman Soldier (Caledonian by birth) has to dump some provisions. Afterward he urinates on them & says "I hope the Sassanid fucks enjoy them". Would a Roman soldier in 256 realistically know what to call the Sassanids?
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In the late 270s emperor Probus fought a campaign in Gaul against various invading tribes, he then returned to Rome in 281 for a triumph. Would the slaves his army took in Gaul have likely been sold in Rome or in markets on the way there?
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In the time between caesar's invasion & Claudius’s invasion, did the people in Britain have any contact with or even know about any urban society besides Rome?
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did the ancient celts have a tradition of communal feasting on importants days of the year and/or important events?
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