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Imagine Beijing/Peking in 1717, imagine Kyoto in 1717. Asuming you weren't looking at a landmark you already know, could you easily tell them apart from architecture alone?	30
is it more or less difficult for historians to get university jobs depending on their specialty?	30
You're a middle class Normandy born man, and one of the people who came across the English Channel with William in 1066. Suppose in 1070 you go out in London alone and unarmed, how at risk (if at all) you are from reprisals and attacks by the local Anglo-Saxon population?	30
why did we stop making nuclear bombs more powerful in the Early 1960s? was it a matter of politics or technical limitations?	30
in movies ancient near eastern and classical cities are always full street urchins. would such orphan children have not been taken into slavery in real life?	29
Who was the first doctor/anatomist to write that all land vertebrates had the same internal organs laid out in (more or less) the same configuration?	29
imagine rich Roman living Near London in AD299, imagine a tribal chief living in the sliver of modern day England that wasn't held by the Romans in AD299. in what ways would expect their daily lives to be similar? in what ways would expect their daily lives to be different?	29
if you were a Japanese farmer in 1928 how would how you did your job be likely be different compared to if you were a farmer in 1828?	29
would what they spoke in Japan in 1114 be as unintelligible to a modern Japanese person as English in 1114 would be to most modern day people from anywhere in the Anglosphere?	29
Did the Romans associate Asia with vulgar taste?	29

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