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why did both secular and religions philosophy advance significantly all around the same time in the the mid first millenium BC all across the known world?

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Can you think of many/any monarchs who became great grandparents befor they died?

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Had the urnfield Culture reached Britain by 1100BC?

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Taking everyone into account (surfs and all) would marrying for love have been the norm or the exception in Europe circa AD1000?

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Suppose you're a US servicemen/official in 1974 with Vietnamese spouse and child. so far as you'd know at that point, how confident can you be that they'd go home with you if the country was to be quickly evacuated of US citizens?

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have official portraits of famous people got lest intentionally flattering since photographs were invented?

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did they try and make students to speak "properly" in English grammar school 60 years ago, as they did in English public schools?

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how many differences can you think of between the Britain of the first century BC, and the Britain of the of the eleventh century BC?

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when did the people in Scandinavia stop being hunter gather?

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I once read an alt-history where a man in 1942 is shown an alien computer. He reflects inwardly that he'd always thought of computers as giant building fillings things from pulp stories. is this anachronistic? if "no" I don't understand how computers could appear in SF stories from before WW2?

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why did both secular and religions philosophy advance significantly all around the same time in the the mid first millenium BC all across the known world?	1
Can you think of many/any monarchs who became great grandparents befor they died?	1
Had the urnfield Culture reached Britain by 1100BC?	0
Taking everyone into account (surfs and all) would marrying for love have been the norm or the exception in Europe circa AD1000?	0
Suppose you're a US servicemen/official in 1974 with Vietnamese spouse and child. so far as you'd know at that point, how confident can you be that they'd go home with you if the country was to be quickly evacuated of US citizens?	0
have official portraits of famous people got lest intentionally flattering since photographs were invented?	0
did they try and make students to speak "properly" in English grammar school 60 years ago, as they did in English public schools?	0
how many differences can you think of between the Britain of the first century BC, and the Britain of the of the eleventh century BC?	0
when did the people in Scandinavia stop being hunter gather?	0
I once read an alt-history where a man in 1942 is shown an alien computer. He reflects inwardly that he'd always thought of computers as giant building fillings things from pulp stories. is this anachronistic? if "no" I don't understand how computers could appear in SF stories from before WW2?	0