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was there more international trade cross the Mediterranean and near east, in 1394BC then 1889BC?	1
suppose I'm the wife a samurai living in 1714 and I'm pregnant with our first child. who do I go to help me through the pregnancy and give birth safely (would it be the same person in both cases?)? and is anything they're going to do going to be harmful by modern medical standards?	1
suppose I stayed in a Minoan greek city for the entirety of 2017BC, do you think it's likely there would be some kind of celebration or festival held around the winter solstice?	1
150to300 yrs ago creationists stopped claiming Usshers flood date because of massive evidence of identical civilizations existed before & after 1491BC.Answers in Genesis say the flood happened in 2348BC, do we know more about the world in 2348BC, than scholars in 1867 knew about the world in 1491BC?	1
who had it better in terms of how much land they farmed and how much of it's product they were free to trade them selves. A typical 1 century BC british celtic farmer, or a typical 10 century AD anglo-saxon farmer?	1
a teacher once told me that Caliban, from The Tempest, was based on how Europeans at the time viewed native people in lands, like Africa and the Americas, that they were only then exploring. what do you think of that notion?	1
was minoan Crete a united state?	1
What was the Nazi Germany party line with regard to women's role in society? How did they feel about women in the work place?	1
Why did the U.S create NASA instead of making going to space part of the Air Force's job?	1
how many people lived in the city Rome in 145BC(IE when they'd finally done away with Carthage for good, and the republic's internal social/economic problems were growing in significance)?	1

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