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would a modern Chinese person have an easier time understanding a Chinese person from AD614 than someone from the Anglo sphere would understanding a Saxon from AD614?

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The other day I watched a history doc YouTube vid that said that Germany had money for the military build up before World War 2 because they borrowed a massive amount from other countries (IE rather than because the economy in Nazi Germany was particularly productive). Is that accurate?

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TED-Ed just put out a video about Greek mythology that describes Hephaestus as the "God of Technology". Is that accurate? did ancient Greeks even have a concept of Technology?

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Suppose you are a Japanese peasant farmer. How would your life likely be different if you lived in 1829 (some decades before the Black ship) compared to 1889 (some decades after the Meiji restoration)?

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In Ancient Rome even if it wasn't considered illegal or even particularly immoral, would it have been socially unacceptable to openly talk about the fact you had sex with your slaves?

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did the ancient greeks know there was a massive expanse of ice in the far north?

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An acquaintance of my grandfather use to tell a story once meeting a German soldier during WW2 and them both just walking away instead of shooting. How unusual was that sort of thing?

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how much difference did all the allotments and garden vegetable patches, actually make to the food shortages in Britain during the war?

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why didn’t the Romans conquer the Isle of Man?

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When the Romans flooded the colosseum for mock sea battles how did they get the water in and out?

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would a modern Chinese person have an easier time understanding a Chinese person from AD614 than someone from the Anglo sphere would understanding a Saxon from AD614?	143
The other day I watched a history doc YouTube vid that said that Germany had money for the military build up before World War 2 because they borrowed a massive amount from other countries (IE rather than because the economy in Nazi Germany was particularly productive). Is that accurate?	141
TED-Ed just put out a video about Greek mythology that describes Hephaestus as the "God of Technology". Is that accurate? did ancient Greeks even have a concept of Technology?	141
Suppose you are a Japanese peasant farmer. How would your life likely be different if you lived in 1829 (some decades before the Black ship) compared to 1889 (some decades after the Meiji restoration)?	141
In Ancient Rome even if it wasn't considered illegal or even particularly immoral, would it have been socially unacceptable to openly talk about the fact you had sex with your slaves?	141
did the ancient greeks know there was a massive expanse of ice in the far north?	140
An acquaintance of my grandfather use to tell a story once meeting a German soldier during WW2 and them both just walking away instead of shooting. How unusual was that sort of thing?	138
how much difference did all the allotments and garden vegetable patches, actually make to the food shortages in Britain during the war?	138
why didn’t the Romans conquer the Isle of Man?	138
When the Romans flooded the colosseum for mock sea battles how did they get the water in and out?	136