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Did Saxon England have any thing like a parliament?	35
Had attitudes to alcohol changed by 1933 or did they just realise prohibition was too hard to enforce?	35
How did the different ethnic "quarters" in Rome and Constantinople work? Was it like you weren't allowed in there if you weren’t of the right ethnicity, or were they more like Chinatowns in modern cities?	35
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
When the Anglo-Saxons Kings were first converting to Christianity were most of the peasants still pagan for a while after, or had they already mostly converted?	34
When medieval European artists depicted ancient figures from biblical and/or classical times in their art were they aware that putting them in contemporary (for the time) looking dress was entirely inaccurate?	34
Was there a greater degree of wealth disparity between a typical Roman senator and a typical inhabitant of imperial Rome (circa 266), or a typical member of parliament and a typical inhabitant of Victorian London (circa 1866)?	34
in the commentary for HBO Rome one of the production people (I forget) said that they'd always have camels in shot every time they transitioned to Alexandria, they thought that'd be a good way to tell the audience they were in North Africa. Would camels have been at all common in 50BC Alexandria?	34
in the 12th century, would the king of England have done any thing particularly out of the ordinary on Christmas day?	34
did the Mayans have Chocolate in 500BC?	34

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