/u/grapp's posts in /r/askhistorians
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Wikipedia suggests Romans Introduced the idea of the travellers inn to Western Europe. If that's so where did Gaulish, Celtic or Germanic traders sleep? Did they just camp out for hundreds of KM or get people to put them up?
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Were there meny/any people who served in the The Imperial Japanese military, and the Japanese defence force?
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Suppose your the teenage son of samurai in 1415, how much (if any) of your time is taken up with combat and martial arts practice?
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in terms of how much food was produced per amount of cultivated land how much more efficient (if indeed it did become more efficient) did English farming become between AD814 and AD1414?
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I watching an educational YouTube vid where a woman said Earth was hit by radiation from either a supernova or a Gamma Ray Burst in 775, they think it's a GR Burst because there's no record of a supernova. Who (which societies) in AD775 would have been writing detailed descriptions of the night sky?
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Suppose you're an adult Japanese person living between bombing of Nagasaki and the arrival of MacArthur. What's your diet like in terms of quantity and quality?
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In The Imitation Game in the bits of the film set in the early 1950s, Alan Turing has a primative computer taking up a spare room in his house. Is that a true detail? Would a computer that small & cheap have been technically feasible in 1952?
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