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Was there a substantive difference between what the Anglo-Saxon gentry ate and what the subsequent Norman gentry ate? If I showed a Norman feast in AD1103 and Anglo-Saxon feast in AD994, could you tell the difference from the food?	45
what differences would you see if you walked the streets of a new kingdom Egyptian city in a time of prosperity, and in a time of hardship?	45
Who lived in Utah before the Mormon migration? How did they react to the LDS coming to dominate the area?	45
Suppose you were a minor Babylonian noble resident in the city when the Assyrians took the city in the 13th century BC. What (if anything) would happen to you?	44
how much would educated medieval Europeans, have known about the history of the world before Christ?	44
were women afforded more freedom of movement and action in the largely Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire (circa AD 500 ....if it maters), or the largely Muslim Abbasid Caliphate (circa AD 900 ....if it maters)?	44
Suppose I visited Constantinople in 1201 (IE before the crusader sacking & the Imperial Exile), and then again in 1299 (IE decades after the crusader sacking & the return of the Imperial court), what differences would I see? would the (common) people 1299 be noticeable poorer than those in 1201?	44
if we're talking about normal soldiers: was there practically any difference between how prone the roundheads and cavaliers, were to things like heavy drink and prostitution (IE forms of recreation puritans were/are supposed to be against), during the English civil war?	44
Were domestic slaves as common in ancient Egypt (circa 1000 BCE, if that's too broad a time frame) as they were in ancient Greece or Rome?	44
did the Minoans speak an Indo-European language?	44

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