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Imagine a small (less than 150 people) rural settlement in AD 295 in what is now Hebei (China near Beijing and Tianjin). What animals and crops would you expect to see? What would you expect the buildings to look like?	132
At the end of Civil War what happened if you were southern soldier with outstanding wages?	131
how did the Japanese treat POWs during the Russo-Japanese Wars and/or WW1? what was the japanese view on being taken prisoner at that time, was it seen as shamefully as it was in circa-WW2?	131
Suppose you're in a Mayan city in AD50. Will you see stalls selling things like you would in an old world city? If "yes" what sort of things would you see being sold, and how would you pay for them?	129
Pliny the Elder Wrote that were ruins on Tenerife when Carthaginians visited there yet (to my knowledge) there's no other evidence of an urban civilisation having existed on the island (that far back). How plausible is it that either Pliny or the Carthaginians were just making it up?	129
was it unusual for samurai to kill them selves by Seppuku in instances when no one was making them?	129
Wikipedia says that in 239 because emperor Gordian was only fourteen “the imperial government was surrendered to the aristocratic families, who controlled the affairs of Rome through the Senate". does that mean Rome was governed in the same way it was during the Republic until he was old enough?	128
2 of my 4 grandparents were raised in functionally agnostic households(they went to church for weddings, funerals & christenings, but their parents made no secret of the fact that they didn't care if they actually believed). How unusual was that for English working class families in the 20s and 30s?	128
what sort of trade goods would you expect to see in the holds of ships crossing the English channel in 1115? would it vary much depending on whether the ship was going to or from the mainland?	127
There's a bit in Phaedo where one of Socrates' entourage makes a derogatory joke about barbarian magicians in Athens. Who is Plato thinking of (as in where do they really come from?) when he refers to people as “barbarian” in that sort of context?	127

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