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170 years ago did people in Japan view the idea of a women enjoying or wanting to enjoy sex, as being more less shameful than did American and/or English people at the same time?	170
Why do the characters on pre-war Japanese empire propaganda posters look so much more stereotypically East Asian (straight black hair and slanted eyes) than characters from anime and manga produced after the war?	169
In the first Season of Rome there's a scene where you see pigs being cut up in a butchers shop, they look very large, hairless and pink, very much like modern domestic pigs. Did Pigs look like that 2000 years ago (IE before selective breeding was well understood)?	168
In Japan in the Edo did the aristocracy have Banquets like their European counterparts? If "yes" what sort of food would be served at them (besides rice)? Would it be much different to what Japanese people eat normally?	167
If you took an English person from 1314 and an English person from 1114 and got them to talk to each other would they think each other's speech patterns were odd? If "yes" would they still be able to easily understand each other?	165
Would the Byzantine army of AD 1114 have been more or less organised than the Roman army AD 114? How much had the structure of the Roman military changed in that 1000 years?	165
Suppose you were at the Dining table of a Member Byzantine Imperial family in 1414. Would you expect the food to be Roman, Turkish or something else entirely?	165
were general living standards in the US higher in 1923 (before the depression) or 1947 (after world war 2)?	163
imagine a pharaonic palace in 2633 BC, imagine a pharaonic palace in 633 BC. what differences (if any) would you expect to see between the two?	163
suppose I visited Rome in 454. how could I tell the western empire was on extremely hard times from the things around me?	162

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