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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)?

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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?

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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?

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do any historians find it difficult to watch or read period pieces because inaccuracies bother them?

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200 years ago did normal people in the west (north America or Europe) keep track of current events around the world?

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how many camp followers would you expect a full strength roman legion to have circa AD250?

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how many people lived in the city of Carthage in 150BC(IE right before the last punic war)?

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In 296 Rome retook Britain from a usurper. When the Romans re conquered a rebellious province did they take slaves and booty as they would when fighting total foreigners?

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Where die Aristotle's works spend the time between his death and there rediscovery by the Romans?

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what jobs existed in the societies of northern European iron-age tribe, besides farmer?

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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
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
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
do any historians find it difficult to watch or read period pieces because inaccuracies bother them?	12
200 years ago did normal people in the west (north America or Europe) keep track of current events around the world?	12
how many camp followers would you expect a full strength roman legion to have circa AD250?	12
how many people lived in the city of Carthage in 150BC(IE right before the last punic war)?	12
In 296 Rome retook Britain from a usurper. When the Romans re conquered a rebellious province did they take slaves and booty as they would when fighting total foreigners?	12
Where die Aristotle's works spend the time between his death and there rediscovery by the Romans?	12
what jobs existed in the societies of northern European iron-age tribe, besides farmer?	12