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How quickly did major information travel in classical times? Example: how long would it have taken news of Claudius’s death to reach to reach the British isles?	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
in the historical novel I'm reading the Romans are grossed out by the fact the Germanic people they're trying conqueror keep farm animals in their houses. Wouldn't (rural) Romans have lived the same way 2000 years?	12
In Gladiator Maximus's black friend says he was a hunter back in Namibia and the implication is that’s normal where he comes from. Were the Kush anymore reliant on hunting then the other urban societies near the Mediterranean in classical times?	12
imagine a rich Roman estate in italy in AD 240, imagine a similar Roman estate in 240 BCE. How (if in any way) would they likely look different?	12
What would the medical facilities have been like on a Royal Navy destroyer doing the Arctic convoy run? Did they all doctors on board?	12
in The Pillars of the Earth (historical novel/TV series set in England in the 1110s/1130s) one of the main characters is stone mason who travels around the countryside with his family, looking for people to employ him. Is that all close to how craftsmen actually lived in the middle ages?	12
how many people lived in the city of Carthage in 150BC(IE right before the last punic war)?	12
In illustrations and movies/TV Zulu worriers are always shown holding shield and spear. Is that actually how they waged war? If "yes" why didn't they just get rifles from Europeans (like the Plains Indians or Inuit people)?	12
1000 years did the Indians on the large Caribbean islands (like Cuba) trade with those on the American mainland?	12

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