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you know the way the camp guards in Schindler's List act (IE acting like killing the jews is nothing to them). Is that authentic or exaggerated at all? if it isn't exaggerated how did the Nazis get people into a mind state where they were comfortable doing that kind of thing?	13
in AD250 would the tribes beyond Hadrian's wall have been using coined money yet?	13
you know that story about the Saxons invading because Vortigern invited them. Is that story apocryphal because it kind of sounds too ....fantasy novel to be true?	13
how come the Saxon invasion resulted in English becoming the dominant language in England but the Norman invasion didn't result French becoming the dominant language?	13
what sort of things would the Egyptians have gotten in trade from their neighbors in around 2000BC?	13
suppose I own and run a pawn shop in London in 1898. does the rest of my community look down on me for taking advantage of the poor (as pawn shop proprietors tend to get depicted in pop culture today) or am I seen as an honest businessman?	13
Would it be normal for a single roman family to live in the same villa for hundreds of years over tens of generations?	13
would the crops Minoans grew have been the same as what the latter "proper" Greeks did?	13
when the emperor returned from defeating a major foreign enemy Rome would hold a Triumph. Would they still hold celebrations (games, public feasts, etc) if the Emperor had just returned from defeating another Roman army, or was that seen as too morbid?	12
imagine you're in 93BCE and you have to find the Huns (or at least the people ancestral to them). where is the best place on Earth to start looking?	12

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