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considering that "Emperor" is not a Japanese word, why do we (we English speakers) not call the Shogun the "Emperor of japan" when we talk about the Edo period?

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why do a lot of historians prefer to say "early middle ages" instead of "dark ages" these days?

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900 years ago what proportion of the English population were surfs, and what proportion were land holders?

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Roughly how meny people lived in Shang China 3500 years ago?

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in the third century did the Irish or the people beyond Hadrian’s wall or regularly buy hot country goods like wine or oliveoil from the Romans?

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why didn't the Japanese grow Millet, like china did and still does, before the Meiji restoration?

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I understand that 600 years ago nobody in New England had any farm animals and everybody got their meat from hunting. In 1414 would the average New England Native American have had more or less meat in their diet than the average English person?

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would what Plato spoke be at all recognisable/intelligible to a modern Greek (like how medieval English is confusing but still very recognisably English) or would it just sound like a totally foreign language at this point?

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when was the written form english first created? why was written English created if early (western) scholars use to put more emphasis on learning to speak and reading works written in latin?

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Did the Romans only use people who'd been slaves their entire lives as house servants? If "no" how did they keep freshly captured barbarians with nothing to loose from killing their masters?

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considering that "Emperor" is not a Japanese word, why do we (we English speakers) not call the Shogun the "Emperor of japan" when we talk about the Edo period?	4
why do a lot of historians prefer to say "early middle ages" instead of "dark ages" these days?	4
900 years ago what proportion of the English population were surfs, and what proportion were land holders?	4
Roughly how meny people lived in Shang China 3500 years ago?	4
in the third century did the Irish or the people beyond Hadrian’s wall or regularly buy hot country goods like wine or oliveoil from the Romans?	4
why didn't the Japanese grow Millet, like china did and still does, before the Meiji restoration?	4
I understand that 600 years ago nobody in New England had any farm animals and everybody got their meat from hunting. In 1414 would the average New England Native American have had more or less meat in their diet than the average English person?	4
would what Plato spoke be at all recognisable/intelligible to a modern Greek (like how medieval English is confusing but still very recognisably English) or would it just sound like a totally foreign language at this point?	4
when was the written form english first created? why was written English created if early (western) scholars use to put more emphasis on learning to speak and reading works written in latin?	4
Did the Romans only use people who'd been slaves their entire lives as house servants? If "no" how did they keep freshly captured barbarians with nothing to loose from killing their masters?	4