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How did the Celts go about dividing up farm land? Did they have a concept of land as property like the Romans or the English after enclosure?	20
Why didn't Thailand turn communists in the 20th century, where Korea and Vietnam did?	20
suppose you're a peasent farmer in southern england the 1010s. what effect (if any) would the viking conquest have your life?	20
200 years ago in Japan, how much did accent and language very depending on class? Would it be easy to tell if someone was a peasant, a samurai or a daimyo based on how they spoke?	20
Is there a reason people stopped wearing cloaks or was it just an arbitrary fashion shift?	20
did the viking age have much effect on the lives of normal people in Scandinavia? like how was day to day life in the Denmark AD515 different from that in Denmark AD919?	20
You know the popular image of rich Romans/Greeks lounging on couches well they consume food & drink served by slaves. How much of their daily lives did upper class people from either sociaty actually spend like that? Also was there a particular reason they preferred to socialise well lying down?	20
How come the Zapruder film is in colour but a lot of professionally produced TV shows from around the same time aren’t?	20
Suppose I visit Constantinople in late December 1201, in late December 1307, and finally in late December 1447. Would I see the grandeur of the holiday festivities to decline in impressiveness along with the city in general?	20
when the Byzantines-Romans retook Italy in the 6th century did many/any Byzantine aristocrats actually move to Italy and reoccupy the estates in the countryside around Rome?	20

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