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Were there any Bedouin nomads in the parts of the near East that Rome controlled? If "yes" are there any records of what the Romans thought of them as a people?

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a TV documentary I watch once, said the climate data indicates there was a massive global reduction in rainfall from 2200BC to 2100BC, and then a recovery from then until 2000BC. Does the historical record indicate that?

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Did the people who lived around where Togo is now, live mostly on hunted, or agricultural products in 1400BC?

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did Chinese culture put less emphasis on family 3000 years ago, before confucius lived?

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why does Henry VII have crooked eyes in this painting? why didn't he ask them to correct it or do it again?

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Back before 1492 How did the native people of (what is now) New England feel about adults having sex with people other than their long term partner?

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In the last few years I've heard a lot people compare Putin to Stalin but obviously Putin's Russia is no where near as oppressive as Stalin's was. Is that because the one man had more power than the other or because the one man chose to be harsher than the other?

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when did agriculture reach south Africa?

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my home town has several hundred tenement houses built for a local brewery in the 1880s & 1890s. at the start of the 20th century, when the temperance movement was going on both sides of the Atlantic, would it have been at all shameful to work in a brewery (or be married to someone who does)?

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in 2266BC did minoan Crete likely have settlements as big as towns or even cities, yet?

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Were there any Bedouin nomads in the parts of the near East that Rome controlled? If "yes" are there any records of what the Romans thought of them as a people?	2
a TV documentary I watch once, said the climate data indicates there was a massive global reduction in rainfall from 2200BC to 2100BC, and then a recovery from then until 2000BC. Does the historical record indicate that?	2
Did the people who lived around where Togo is now, live mostly on hunted, or agricultural products in 1400BC?	2
did Chinese culture put less emphasis on family 3000 years ago, before confucius lived?	2
why does Henry VII have crooked eyes in this painting? why didn't he ask them to correct it or do it again?	2
Back before 1492 How did the native people of (what is now) New England feel about adults having sex with people other than their long term partner?	2
In the last few years I've heard a lot people compare Putin to Stalin but obviously Putin's Russia is no where near as oppressive as Stalin's was. Is that because the one man had more power than the other or because the one man chose to be harsher than the other?	2
when did agriculture reach south Africa?	2
my home town has several hundred tenement houses built for a local brewery in the 1880s & 1890s. at the start of the 20th century, when the temperance movement was going on both sides of the Atlantic, would it have been at all shameful to work in a brewery (or be married to someone who does)?	2
in 2266BC did minoan Crete likely have settlements as big as towns or even cities, yet?	2