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in 1100 BC would the ancient Egyptians likely be aware of the existence of the British isles?	36
did mayan cities (circa 1300) have public marketplaces like old world cities did/do? if "yes" would you expect to see being sold there?	36
What was the point of hiring a defence lawyer in classical Greece or Rome? What could a defence Lawyer do in a world before physical evidence?	36
Imagine a young German soldier on the Russian front in 1942, imagine a German soldier (of similar age & rank) working as a guard in an interment camp in Germany or one of pacified parts of Europe. How much and in what ways, do the two men’s living conditions likely differ?	36
a lot of movies and TV from the 1950s and 1960s depict dinosaurs living alongside people just one or two million years ago (examples: Godzilla, One Million Years B.C., the Flintstones, etc), were the vast majority of people back then (in western countries) really unaware that's totally inaccurate?	35
a while back I was reading a Cracked article (I really can't remember what it was called) where somebody said that the Russians rally weren't interested in the Moon, the US just decided is was a race. Is there any truth to that?	35
in movies about the event life in Hiroshima before the bomb is usually depicted as relatively normal and comfortable. wasn't japan on the verge of famine by the summer of 1945? wouldn't there have already been people in Hiroshima suffering from malnourishment?	35
How did the ancient Babylonians view homosexuality (circa Hammurabi time if period makes a difference)?	35
What was most populous continent in the 21st century BC?	35
Did Saxon England have any thing like a parliament?	35

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