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I was reading a fantasy story once where a guy manages to tricks a horse archer into thinking longbows are poorly made because they looks so simple compared to a composite riding bows. is that based on anything historical to do with archery or bow construction?	1
Why were the civilizations in central & south America still using stone weapons in 1492?	1
Suppose two or more chiefs had a disagreement about what exactly had been decided at one of the haudenosaunee's (Iroquois league) past council meetings. How could/did they resolve that kind of thing without a written record?	1
did the shift into the classical age and the birth of western philosophy and science actually have any effect on how your average greek or roman saw the world and their place in it?	1
When the first labour Prime Minister (Ramsay MacDonald) came to power in 1924 were many/any people on the British left angry that the tradition of the PM meeting the monarch on a weekly basis continued unabated?	1
In The Crown (Netflix show) when George VI needs his cancerous lung removed they do the Surgery in Buckingham Palace. Is that accurate? If "yes" why weren't they ( sufficiently) worried about infection?	1
in the last episode of Rome when Pullo is telling Vorenus what has become his family he tells him his (sort of) step son has become an apprentice stonemason. Did Roman craftsmen have child apprentices? What was the appeal of taking on a free boy in place of buying a slave you keep indefinitely?	1
Suppose you were a black man living in a town somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon in 1925, and a women walked into the police station & claimed you attacked her. what are the odds you'd live to stand trial?	1
When did it become apparent (to western economists at least) that oil would become the most valuable export of the area around the Persian Gulf?	1
was Columbus's discovery big news in Europe at the time?	1

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