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at the time were many/any news sources thankful or congratulating towards Jack Ruby for killing the presidents killer?	39
I've always got the impression (from movies and school teachers mostly) that the Huns and the mongols were both very similar it terms of how they lived (nomadic, horse riders, imperialists) and where they came from (The Asian Steppe lands). Do you think that's a reasonable way to view them?	38
did the Romans at all associate their supposed superiority to barbarians with their greater technical knowhow (IE example they had watermills well the Celts were still grinding by hand) or did they imagine it to be an entirely cultural superiority (IE "we make better art & poetry than them")?	38
Was the amount of international trade coming through Constantinople significantly less after the sacking of 1204, compared to before?	38
If I was a normal russian and I got up on a soup box in the middle of 1947 Moscow and started shouting anti Stalin stuff, what would happen to me?	38
what was life like beyond Hadrian's wall in the 3rd century?	38
A teacher once told me that before the Columbian exchange the turnip was the most popular root vegetable in Western Europe, land used for potatoes in 1800 was probably used for turnips in 1400. True?	38
If in 1879 you asked a Chinese aristocrat what they thought of Japan’s Meiji Restoration would they have likely been disapproving?	38
would the greeks and romans (circa AD 250) have been aware that 2000 years before them people didn't have steel working like them? would they have been aware there was a time when people had no metal at all, and didn't even live by farming, let alone have cities and large scale political setups?	38
In 1514 was it common knowledge in Europe that gun powder was invented in China?	38

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