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Suppose I'm a normal Roman citerzen (say I'm doctor or something like that) in londinium in 244. Where would I likerly get the news that Philip had ascended to the throne after Emporer Gordian's death? And how much of a delay would there be between the event and me finding out?

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Was being a medical doctor a respectable job for an upper middle class or even aristocratic man in late Victorian england?

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were living standards better in Sub-Roman Britain or Anglo-Saxon England?

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I just watched The Founder & it made me wonder when it became the case that most fast food joints in the US were part of big chains rather than mom & pop setups?

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who would have more personal freedom of movement, a free Zoroastrian woman in an AD303 Sasanian city, or a free Muslim woman in an AD808 Abbasid Caliphate city?

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Was there any movement back and forth across the Bering Strait after the end of the ice age and before 1492?

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Suppose you visited a Han-era Chinese city in circa 75 BC, suppose you visited a Song-era Chinese city in circa AD 1075. What differences would you expect to see?

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excluding Russia why didn’t any east Asian powers try to claim land in the new world in the 16th or 17th centuries?

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I once read that a large number of North Korean defectors have untreated gynecological infections because of the lack of good health care, sex ed and generally poor conditions there. Did the same problem exist in the west (Europe, north America) 300 years ago back when we had the same lacks?

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what was the first state in history to create a constitution?

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Suppose I'm a normal Roman citerzen (say I'm doctor or something like that) in londinium in 244. Where would I likerly get the news that Philip had ascended to the throne after Emporer Gordian's death? And how much of a delay would there be between the event and me finding out?	28
Was being a medical doctor a respectable job for an upper middle class or even aristocratic man in late Victorian england?	28
were living standards better in Sub-Roman Britain or Anglo-Saxon England?	28
I just watched The Founder & it made me wonder when it became the case that most fast food joints in the US were part of big chains rather than mom & pop setups?	27
who would have more personal freedom of movement, a free Zoroastrian woman in an AD303 Sasanian city, or a free Muslim woman in an AD808 Abbasid Caliphate city?	27
Was there any movement back and forth across the Bering Strait after the end of the ice age and before 1492?	27
Suppose you visited a Han-era Chinese city in circa 75 BC, suppose you visited a Song-era Chinese city in circa AD 1075. What differences would you expect to see?	27
excluding Russia why didn’t any east Asian powers try to claim land in the new world in the 16th or 17th centuries?	27
I once read that a large number of North Korean defectors have untreated gynecological infections because of the lack of good health care, sex ed and generally poor conditions there. Did the same problem exist in the west (Europe, north America) 300 years ago back when we had the same lacks?	27
what was the first state in history to create a constitution?	27