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suppose You're a 13/14 year old girl in a (tradesmen/working class) Muslim family in Edirne (the capital of the Ottoman empire) in 1397. Suppose you sleep with a boy and get pregnant. What will happen to you when your family and/or community find/figure out?	22
What would have been the most common religion in the Midlands of England circa AD450 to AD550?	22
there's an alternate history series I like, that's set in a world where aliens invade mid way through WW2. 75 years ago was sci-fi popular enough outside the anglosphere, that most people on Earth would have already been aware of concept of extraterrestrial life?	22
Did Arian Christians believe in the concept of sanctuary? If "yes" would (western) Roman Emperor Majorian have respected it during his 450/60s campaigns, & so not kill/enslave people hiding in churches?	22
What would have been the most westerly place on earth you could buy silk in 400BC?	22
would a classical greek (circa 250BC) have any clear idea in their mind of how long ago the major events in realm of the gods, Cronus eating his kids and so forth, were supposed to have taken place?	22
did the chinese of the Shang dynasty believe their emperors were divine rulers?	22
Today a lot of people see being reliant on state welfare as something shameful. Did many/any ancient Romans view being reliant grain dole (IE free grain supplied to poor Romans) the same way	22
would insulae (tenement blocks) have been common in Constantinople (circa 600) like they were in ancient Rome?	22
You know that popular image of southern slave traders whipping blacks until they agreed to answer to their Anglo slave name, did that sort of thing really happen often? Were they really that strict about slave names?	22

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