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What's the earliest known accounts of diseases linked to urban overcrowding?

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how did different pagan tribes react to christian missionaries in the early dark ages?

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Were there any Japanese-Americans out to sea on US navy ships when pearl harbour happened? If so what happened to them right after (if anything)?

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Historically do revolutions only take place in countries where the general population feel they can't possibly acquire power?

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how did people in middle ages Europe (circa 1250) view the idea of democracy? did scholars and philosophers at the time have many/any arguments for why having monarchs was better than the (somewhat) democratic systems that existed in classical Greece & Rome?

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Why did Norman ruled England try to conquer the rest of Britain where as Saxon ruled England did not?

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in AD300 what proportion of the cultivated land in Italy was made up of small holdings farmed by the people who owned them? and what proportion was made up of large estates owned by rich people who had slaves work the land for them?

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By the time the English were colonising New England they'd stopped using bows and arrows (unless I'm mistaken). would normal colonists have known what bows were when they saw Native Americans using them?

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In the 1930/40s Japan's technological level was not much different than the US's. At the time of pearl harbor would that have been common knowledge in America?

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Today Spartacus in generally seen as a heroic figure, how was he seen by people who actually lived in Roman times in centuries immediately after his rebellion?

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What's the earliest known accounts of diseases linked to urban overcrowding?	2
how did different pagan tribes react to christian missionaries in the early dark ages?	2
Were there any Japanese-Americans out to sea on US navy ships when pearl harbour happened? If so what happened to them right after (if anything)?	2
Historically do revolutions only take place in countries where the general population feel they can't possibly acquire power?	2
how did people in middle ages Europe (circa 1250) view the idea of democracy? did scholars and philosophers at the time have many/any arguments for why having monarchs was better than the (somewhat) democratic systems that existed in classical Greece & Rome?	2
Why did Norman ruled England try to conquer the rest of Britain where as Saxon ruled England did not?	2
in AD300 what proportion of the cultivated land in Italy was made up of small holdings farmed by the people who owned them? and what proportion was made up of large estates owned by rich people who had slaves work the land for them?	2
By the time the English were colonising New England they'd stopped using bows and arrows (unless I'm mistaken). would normal colonists have known what bows were when they saw Native Americans using them?	2
In the 1930/40s Japan's technological level was not much different than the US's. At the time of pearl harbor would that have been common knowledge in America?	2
Today Spartacus in generally seen as a heroic figure, how was he seen by people who actually lived in Roman times in centuries immediately after his rebellion?	2