/u/grapp's posts in /r/AskHistorians
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?
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Suppose you're giving birth in 1398 in either central Mexico, England, southern India or Japan. What are your odds of dying in child birth, or from related complications, for each of those places? Which is safest and which is most dangerous?
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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?
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There's an episode of Rome where a character manages to over power the gladiators after being condemned to die in the arena. Did anything like that ever happen in real life? Would you still get excuted regardless?
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In the 1962 would the Soviet space program & NASA have still been using technology than ran on vacuum tubes instead of transistors?
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I'm given to understand that in 670 the Isle of Wight was one of the last places in England to remain pagan (Norse pagan ...I think?). How meny people (roughly) would have actually lived there in that time?
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You know A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, At the time Mark Twain wrote it did (most) historians still think King Arthur was a real historical figure?
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suppose I'm a roman soldier in AD 300 and I bend my gladius somehow, do I get a new one or take it to blacksmith for repair? in either case who's paying for it?
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