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I'm walking the streets of Rome in 467. What (if anything) will see to indicate the Empire is in dire straits?	162
in the 1030s Harald Hardrada (who fought over the English crown in 1066) was exiled from his Scandinavian homeland. He and hundreds of other vikings went east and eventually became mercenaries in the byzantine empire. Would he or any of his men have ever seen a city before going to Constantinople?	156
Theres a bit in Emperor (2012 film about occupation of japan)where Fumimaro Konoe implies that theres no difference between the Japanese & the British empires, Americans just see one because japan isn’t European. Is that really a viewpoint a prominent Japanese person would plausibly have in the 40s?	155
160 years ago if you asked someone in either the US government or military how it could be ethical to force Japan to open up to western trade when they'd made it clear they wanted to be left alone, what would they have most likely said?	154
would a common person in 65 BC Egypt and a common person in 1103 BC Egypt be able to talk to each other with mutual intelligibility?	152
Suppose I live just outside the Roman Empire in 239, on the Isle of Man say, and I want to local smith to fix some tool for me. Do I pay him in Roman coin or do I say the Celtic equivalent of "when ever you need a solid from me mate"?	152
In the second world war if a white American was married to a Japanese’s immigrant would they both have been interned, or just the Japanese partner?	151
there's a scene in Boardwalk Empire where two characters enter a small town Diner and order spaghetti & meatballs. By the 1920s had Italian food become sufficiently normalised in America that you could expect to find something like spaghetti & meatballs in a back woods Diner?	150
Suppose I'm a European monarch in AD1050. Would I likely see it as part of my responsibility to understand the logistical & economic state of my realm with regard to international trade?	149
to make beer you have to use crops that could have been used to make normal foods (barley for example can make bread). that being the case was there much/any objection (on either side) to allowing The brewing industry to continue during the world wars when food was rationed?	149

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