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suppose you visited a small (less than 250 people) settlement in Japan (southern Honshu, if that's too broad) in 1717. Suppose you visited a small settlement in China (Hebei, if that's too broad) in 1717. Aside from the language people spoke how would they likely be different from each other?	43
suppose you're a merchant living in Luoyang (the capital of the first Jin dynasty) in AD293, how much of your food (if any) is rice?	43
What domesticated animals would you expect to find if you visited the British isles on 2093BC?	42
in the last Vlogbrothers video Hank Green made the claim that there have been Muslims in the US for as long as the country has existed. Is that true? if "yes" what sort of numbers are we talking, and why would Muslims be in the US at a time when it was so fiercely Christian?	42
there's an episode of Downton Abbey where one of the servants said that he entertained notions of becoming a school teacher before his family made him leave school to get a job. Assuming he meant a primary school teacher how much additional schooling would that have required in around 1900?	42
a while back some people here told me that there were African American medical doctors before the end of the 19th century. Why would a medical school in 1900 accept a black applicant if they didn’t have to?	42
Today you can find entire books or websites that tell you how to know which mushrooms or wild fruit are safe to eat and which will kill you. Would a typical medieval peasant (circa 1116) just know that kind of thing via passed down knowledge?	42
why is japan so much more wealthy and westernized than most other large far eastern countries?	41
imagine a farmstead in England in 1702, imagine a farmstead in New England in 1702. what differences would you expect to see?	41
250 years ago what proportion of What is now Russia, was actually inhabited by people who spoke Russian as their first language?	41

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