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What would a roman aristocrat eat and drink in the course of a normal day?

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do you think being a historian makes it easier to really view past events as "real"?

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what would chinese education and moral instruction have been based on in the dynasties that predated Confucius (particularly the Shang)?

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Were the classical Greeks aware of the dark age that had taken place a few hundred years before?

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what are mastiffs for originally?

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How He did duels become established as a convention if laws against murderd are older than easily fired hand guns?

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In most screen versions of Great Expectations Pip starts speaking with received pronoceation to pass as a gentleman. Is that at all period accurate for the 1820s?

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I was just reading a book set in the 1450s. it starts with some English fishermen stopping in Le Croisic (France) to buy salt for salting down cod. Why would Le Croisic salt be different/better than the salt you can make anywhere there's sea water & means to boil/evaporate it?

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Wikipedia says that in 306 Constantine (not yet emperor) & his father Constantius went beyond Hadrian's wall to deal with a Pict rebellion. I'm given to understand that Hadrian's wall marked the border at this point in time, how can people outside the Roman empire have been rebelling against it?

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I was just watching a YouTube video about the Donner Party, in which they say some of the only people in the group who refrained from cannibalism were Native American guides. What tribe were these guides? & is there a cultural explanation for why they were more reluctant than the white pioneers?

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What would a roman aristocrat eat and drink in the course of a normal day?	4
do you think being a historian makes it easier to really view past events as "real"?	4
what would chinese education and moral instruction have been based on in the dynasties that predated Confucius (particularly the Shang)?	4
Were the classical Greeks aware of the dark age that had taken place a few hundred years before?	4
what are mastiffs for originally?	4
How He did duels become established as a convention if laws against murderd are older than easily fired hand guns?	4
In most screen versions of Great Expectations Pip starts speaking with received pronoceation to pass as a gentleman. Is that at all period accurate for the 1820s?	4
I was just reading a book set in the 1450s. it starts with some English fishermen stopping in Le Croisic (France) to buy salt for salting down cod. Why would Le Croisic salt be different/better than the salt you can make anywhere there's sea water & means to boil/evaporate it?	4
Wikipedia says that in 306 Constantine (not yet emperor) & his father Constantius went beyond Hadrian's wall to deal with a Pict rebellion. I'm given to understand that Hadrian's wall marked the border at this point in time, how can people outside the Roman empire have been rebelling against it?	4
I was just watching a YouTube video about the Donner Party, in which they say some of the only people in the group who refrained from cannibalism were Native American guides. What tribe were these guides? & is there a cultural explanation for why they were more reluctant than the white pioneers?	4