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How unusual would it have been for a member of the English aristocracy to marry someone from the working class in the late 19th century?	27
600 years ago did any of the agricultural Native North Americans think people in the Pacific Northwest were primitive for being hunter-gatherers? At that time did many/any North American tribes have a concept of "primitivism"?	26
suppose I visit Rome (the city itself) in 266. What (if any) would I see to indicate that empire was in political and military dire straits?	26
what did the Bantu in KwaZulu-Natal (the north-east coast of south africa) grow before they got corn from Europeans?	26
when did the roman army take on the highly organised form it's famous/infamous for?	26
There's a church, near where I live, that has grates over its stained glass windows, to keep people from breaking them. I believe it was built in the late 15th century, what would happen to you if you were court vandalising a church (in England) then?	26
The dust generated by the Tunguska event caused bright nights all over the world. Was there much scientific debate about what caused this phenomenon in the 18 years before the Russians investigated the site in 1927? How long did it take people to connect the two after?	26
in the 15th century the Guanches (the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands) believed in a polytheistic religion. Would the Castilian(later Spanish)Conquistadors have been aware that "Pagans" still existed in their time(rather than just in the classical past), before encountering the Guanches?	26
In 1835 roughly what proportion of the black people living in the United States would have been freemen?	26
where did Anglo-Saxon churchmen get the red wine they used for the sacraments?	26

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