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in the mid 350s future Emperor Julian (the Apostate) traveled to Athens to study philosophy. At that time would the dominant religion in Athens have been Greek polytheism or Christianity?	18
Suppose I go into store/shop in New York and buy, say.... a bag of potatoes (or really any common vegetables). What’s the earliest point in history, I wouldn't necessarily be buying local produce?	18
was it that knowledge of the Vikings' discovery of America didn’t spread or just that people didn’t realize the land they'd discovered was actually the edge of a giant continent so nobody viewed it as significant? if the former why didn’t it spread?	18
Yesterday someone on here told me that in Han era Chinese cities they locked streets so people couldn't go out at night. Is that true? If "yes" did it mean they had less late night crime than other contemporary urban societies?	18
In AD300 would the story of Romulus & Remus have been widely known by the people in the empire who were not of Roman/Italian decent?	18
Was having a sexual relationship with a slave something a plantation owned would have to keep secret in 1850s deed south?	18
was Zoroastrianism a particularly prevalent or even existent religion in 911BC?	18
were the Dutch, or atleast their governent, angry with the Americans when they forcible ended their monopoly on trade with Japan?	18
Suppose you are a working class citizen in AD95 Rome. How often do you go to the public baths and/or change your clothes? Also would both of those things be more less frequent for an individual of equivalent social status in Italy 1000 years later (in the middle age)?	18
In the 1930s would most people in the western world have understood the concept of what a computer was suppose to be?	18

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