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was Tenochtitlan (circa 1450 if it maters) cleaner than large European cities of around the same time (say ....Rome)?	99
in the Chinese emperor's patronising letter to George III, he says that he held a banquet for the English ambassadors. Would the English diplomats have had the faintest idea how to conduct themselves in a polite manner at a Chinese banquet? Would they even have known how to use chopsticks?	99
I've been told that in the mid-period roman republic, soldiers were expected to supply their own gear. was everyone required to buy the same gear? if "no" was there at least a minimum standard for what you could show up wearing/welding and still be allowed on the campaign?	99
In AD250 what proportion of the people who lived in & around Rome were (mostly) descended from the people who lived there 1000 years earlier (before the empire existed)?	98
Why did the Japanese army choose to use Katana even though they were trying to westernise everything else? Also how come the post war Japanese defence force stopped arming people with Katana?	98
When did japanese (or the language ancestral to it) become the most widely spoken language in Japan?	97
The other day I was watching a YouTube vid about Caesar's aborted attempt to take Britain in 54BC. The narrator said before the expedition there were people in Rome/Greece who thought Britain might be the edge of an entire continent, is that true?	97
in 1450 was the wealth disparity between rich and poor in Tenochtitlan more or less extreme than it was in contemporary major European cities (like Rome, London or Paris)?	97
can you think of ancient (more than 500 years ago) monarchs who may have had Autism? If "yes" who were they and what were they like as a ruler?	97
when John Snow got them to remove the Broad Street pump handle (the water was infected with cholera, in 1854) did many/any people in that part of london complain about it?	96

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