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I once read a time travel story partly set in 1250 BC Africa. There’s a bit in it where a man from Gambia encounters some Cape San, he concludes they're primitive because they don't have any domestic plants or animals. Would people in West Africa have had domestic plants or animals that far back?

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Why wasn't Napoleon ever just executed either of the times he was removed from power?

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How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?

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was Aristotle a more widely read and influential philosopher in the time of the roman empire, or the high middle ages?

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you know how in films set in the middle ages they'll put actors in costumes with a lot of form fitting leather parts if they want them to look cool and bad-ass. In Britain 950 years ago was is particularly normal to make clothes out of leather?

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How was the Roman Empire at its height different from the Roman Empire of just before the dark ages?

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in the 1100sBC Assyria and the Phoenicians were two of the few civilisations in that part of the world that weren't badly affected by the invasions of the sea peoples, the egyptians were affected but they didn't collapse. did the three trade much with each other at the time?

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Would people in Britain have been awar that the Romans were coming before they got there in AD43?

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In 1714 who had more money and more food, the average New England inhabitant or the average England inhabitant?

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did the native Americans (in New England specifically) have a mid winter Celebration like most european cultures do (IE a christmas analogue)?

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I once read a time travel story partly set in 1250 BC Africa. There’s a bit in it where a man from Gambia encounters some Cape San, he concludes they're primitive because they don't have any domestic plants or animals. Would people in West Africa have had domestic plants or animals that far back?	11
Why wasn't Napoleon ever just executed either of the times he was removed from power?	11
How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?	11
was Aristotle a more widely read and influential philosopher in the time of the roman empire, or the high middle ages?	11
you know how in films set in the middle ages they'll put actors in costumes with a lot of form fitting leather parts if they want them to look cool and bad-ass. In Britain 950 years ago was is particularly normal to make clothes out of leather?	11
How was the Roman Empire at its height different from the Roman Empire of just before the dark ages?	11
in the 1100sBC Assyria and the Phoenicians were two of the few civilisations in that part of the world that weren't badly affected by the invasions of the sea peoples, the egyptians were affected but they didn't collapse. did the three trade much with each other at the time?	11
Would people in Britain have been awar that the Romans were coming before they got there in AD43?	11
In 1714 who had more money and more food, the average New England inhabitant or the average England inhabitant?	11
did the native Americans (in New England specifically) have a mid winter Celebration like most european cultures do (IE a christmas analogue)?	11