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suppose you went to around where New Jersey now is in AD250, would you expect to find farmers, hunter-gatherers or people in some kind of intermediate state?

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in the 1600s what was the average age of people who left Britain to setup in the New England colonies?

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In 12 years a slave there's a bit where one of the Over-seers calls Northup a "black bastard". Would people in the antebellum south have ever used "black" in place of the N-word or "coloured"?

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did the Byzantines eat lying down like the western Romans use to? If "no" when did it fall out of fashion?

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How was confucianism regarded by the communism factions in early 20th century China?

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Suppose you run a local paper in a mid sized (about 150000 people) Russian city in 1966. To what existent does the State interfere in the content of the news you report?

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suppose you're a rural parish priest in the midlands of England in 789. how educated are you compared to a typical englishman (of the time)?

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when was the roman empire's 3rd century hyperinflation problem revolved?

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Cumulatively over the course of it's existence has communist China been more or less tolerant of Buddhism than the USSR was of Christianity?

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Were there any African-American medical doctors in In the 1920s?

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suppose you went to around where New Jersey now is in AD250, would you expect to find farmers, hunter-gatherers or people in some kind of intermediate state?	3
in the 1600s what was the average age of people who left Britain to setup in the New England colonies?	3
In 12 years a slave there's a bit where one of the Over-seers calls Northup a "black bastard". Would people in the antebellum south have ever used "black" in place of the N-word or "coloured"?	3
did the Byzantines eat lying down like the western Romans use to? If "no" when did it fall out of fashion?	3
How was confucianism regarded by the communism factions in early 20th century China?	3
Suppose you run a local paper in a mid sized (about 150000 people) Russian city in 1966. To what existent does the State interfere in the content of the news you report?	3
suppose you're a rural parish priest in the midlands of England in 789. how educated are you compared to a typical englishman (of the time)?	3
when was the roman empire's 3rd century hyperinflation problem revolved?	3
Cumulatively over the course of it's existence has communist China been more or less tolerant of Buddhism than the USSR was of Christianity?	3
Were there any African-American medical doctors in In the 1920s?	3