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What did the Spanish want the Canary island for?

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would there have been hunter-gatherer tribes inhabiting the area around modern day Rio de Janeiro, 3000 years ago?

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If I went into an english market town in AD 994. Can I buy freshwater fish from the venders there, or was fresh water fishing like hunting (IE you have to do it yourself)?

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Did the vandal aristocracy mostly speak a Germanic language, or Latin?

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I just started reading a novel set in AD458, at the start of the book Majorian wants to retake Gaul but the senate are staling. did the senate have any practical ability to stop the Emperor from doing anything?

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remember that scene in Apollo 13 about the filters in one part of the ship being incompatible with another. Did NASA fix that by the next mission?

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In 1300 would most people in England have thought of the age they lived in as more "advanced" then the Saxon age or the period right after Romans left just before that?

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in 308 the North African provinces revolted agienst the legitimate emperor (IE the one recognised by the Senate and people of rome) Maxentius in Rome and cut off the grain supply. Can anyone tell me WHEN in 308 (IE winter, spring or summer) this happened?

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Do we have any written accounts from people who endured the trauma of both sacks of Rome?

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When did the Japanese start using guns in place of bows, spears or swords?

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What did the Spanish want the Canary island for?	2
would there have been hunter-gatherer tribes inhabiting the area around modern day Rio de Janeiro, 3000 years ago?	2
If I went into an english market town in AD 994. Can I buy freshwater fish from the venders there, or was fresh water fishing like hunting (IE you have to do it yourself)?	2
Did the vandal aristocracy mostly speak a Germanic language, or Latin?	2
I just started reading a novel set in AD458, at the start of the book Majorian wants to retake Gaul but the senate are staling. did the senate have any practical ability to stop the Emperor from doing anything?	2
remember that scene in Apollo 13 about the filters in one part of the ship being incompatible with another. Did NASA fix that by the next mission?	2
In 1300 would most people in England have thought of the age they lived in as more "advanced" then the Saxon age or the period right after Romans left just before that?	2
in 308 the North African provinces revolted agienst the legitimate emperor (IE the one recognised by the Senate and people of rome) Maxentius in Rome and cut off the grain supply. Can anyone tell me WHEN in 308 (IE winter, spring or summer) this happened?	2
Do we have any written accounts from people who endured the trauma of both sacks of Rome?	2
When did the Japanese start using guns in place of bows, spears or swords?	2