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In one of his books David Greaber asserts that the local pub (rather than the Church) would typically be the community hub in late medieval English communities. Is that accurate?	6
suppose I'm taking the sacraments in a parish church in staffordshire in England in AD789. from how far away did the red wine I'm drinking come? and how many hands did it pass through getting from there to here?	6
you know films like Akira or Escape from New York where there's supposed to have been a nuclear war but society is still functioning (more or less) as before. In the final decade of the cold war were there really still many people who believed we could come out of a global nuclear war so well?	6
When Hannibal was growing up in Iberia what were his living conditions like? Would he have been in a house like back in Carthage?	6
is it plausible that a person from 1313 BC Britain would be aware of the existence of Egypt?	6
was Russia taking over Europe a considered a legitimate fear just after world war 2?	6
If you're a practicing a Christian or a practicing Muslim, regardless of your credentials, I'm inclined to assume your views on the historicity of Jesus are deeply biased.Do you think that's a bad approach (as a laymen) to take to studying western religious history?	6
Suppose its 1337 and I'm a European peasent girl (age 10) clinging to a peace of drift wood after falling off a cliff into the Mediterranean a day before. Suppose a Byzantine/Roman fishing ship spots me. Am I going to spend the rest of my life a slave?	6
what's the earliest date you could walk into a synagogue and find a copy of the Torah exactly the same (in terms of content) as one you'd see if you walked into a synagogue today?	6
In the history of Rome Podcast Mike Duncan says that a few years before they sacked Rome, The Romans attempted to genocide all the goths in Italy. does "genocide" accurately describe what the Romans were doing?	6

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