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You can either be a modern, medieval or classical historian with various sub specialities. Is that right?

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Suppose you are the Maharaja of an Indian princely state in the 1920s. What do you most likely spend your time doing (IE what are your duties)? What's your opinion of the Indian independence movement likely to be?

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were the people of Kent Celtic in culture by 911BC?

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What was the largest political unit in the Americas 2000 years ago?

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imagine a young (18 to 24) typical Roman freeman in Rome in AD116, imagine a young (18 to 24) typical Roman/Byzantine freeman in Constantinople in AD1116. how (if in any way at all) would you expect their daily lives to be different?

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Remember in War horse when Benedict Cumberbatch’s cavalry officer character is taken captive in France like a handful of days into WW1. Where would someone like him have been taken? And is likely that he’d still be alive at the end of the war?

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why did the Vikings leave England alone after 1066?

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Modern democracies set up systems that allow military personal aboard to vote remotely, if you were a roman (citizen) soldier was there any way for you take part in the elections back in Rome while you were on campaign, or did people back then just view that as a logistically impossibility?

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the Kingdom of the Kush was an urban civilization that existed in Africa at the same time as Ancient Egypt then Rome. Is possible/likely the bought European slaves from the Romans?

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did they have stand up comedians in the 1920s?

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You can either be a modern, medieval or classical historian with various sub specialities. Is that right?	1
Suppose you are the Maharaja of an Indian princely state in the 1920s. What do you most likely spend your time doing (IE what are your duties)? What's your opinion of the Indian independence movement likely to be?	1
were the people of Kent Celtic in culture by 911BC?	1
What was the largest political unit in the Americas 2000 years ago?	1
imagine a young (18 to 24) typical Roman freeman in Rome in AD116, imagine a young (18 to 24) typical Roman/Byzantine freeman in Constantinople in AD1116. how (if in any way at all) would you expect their daily lives to be different?	1
Remember in War horse when Benedict Cumberbatch’s cavalry officer character is taken captive in France like a handful of days into WW1. Where would someone like him have been taken? And is likely that he’d still be alive at the end of the war?	1
why did the Vikings leave England alone after 1066?	1
Modern democracies set up systems that allow military personal aboard to vote remotely, if you were a roman (citizen) soldier was there any way for you take part in the elections back in Rome while you were on campaign, or did people back then just view that as a logistically impossibility?	1
the Kingdom of the Kush was an urban civilization that existed in Africa at the same time as Ancient Egypt then Rome. Is possible/likely the bought European slaves from the Romans?	1
did they have stand up comedians in the 1920s?	1