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In 19th century England would a skilled craftsmen (IE a carpenter, a sculptor, a stone mason, etc) be regarded as higher class than someone who does unskilled labour in a factory?

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do many/any forms of Celtic Paganism have a sky father/king god figure in there mythos?

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Ws slave labour more common in Europe during the time of the Roman empire (I’m thinking about AD 300 if it matters) than in the dark ages (I’m thinking about AD 1050 if it matters)?

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why do we say "pharaoh" instead of "king of Egypt"?

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would archaic period native north Americans (I'm thinking of around New England if it makes a difference) have been nomadic or not?

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at school all I remember being taught about the open field system is that it restricted how much land farmers could use and what they could do with it and so held back innovations in agriculture like crop rotation. Exactly why did the Anglo-Saxons adopt it in the first place?

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suppose you farm millet or Rice in China in 1395. How would your day to day life be different from that of someone farming the same crop in the same place 2500 years before?

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In the present day west we tend to attribute particular personality traits to certain animals (fox=sly, owl=wise, cat=stuck up, etc). Did Native (North) American tribes anthropomorphise animals in that way? If so did they come up with different imagined traits for the same animals?

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were many/any american or English movies and books banned in japan between between Pearlharbor and Hiroshima?

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in ancient roman times how much did it cost to pay a scribe to create a copy of a book?

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In 19th century England would a skilled craftsmen (IE a carpenter, a sculptor, a stone mason, etc) be regarded as higher class than someone who does unskilled labour in a factory?	4
do many/any forms of Celtic Paganism have a sky father/king god figure in there mythos?	4
Ws slave labour more common in Europe during the time of the Roman empire (I’m thinking about AD 300 if it matters) than in the dark ages (I’m thinking about AD 1050 if it matters)?	4
why do we say "pharaoh" instead of "king of Egypt"?	4
would archaic period native north Americans (I'm thinking of around New England if it makes a difference) have been nomadic or not?	4
at school all I remember being taught about the open field system is that it restricted how much land farmers could use and what they could do with it and so held back innovations in agriculture like crop rotation. Exactly why did the Anglo-Saxons adopt it in the first place?	4
suppose you farm millet or Rice in China in 1395. How would your day to day life be different from that of someone farming the same crop in the same place 2500 years before?	4
In the present day west we tend to attribute particular personality traits to certain animals (fox=sly, owl=wise, cat=stuck up, etc). Did Native (North) American tribes anthropomorphise animals in that way? If so did they come up with different imagined traits for the same animals?	4
were many/any american or English movies and books banned in japan between between Pearlharbor and Hiroshima?	4
in ancient roman times how much did it cost to pay a scribe to create a copy of a book?	4