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would Ptolemy have known about Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric model?	4
In AD355 Julian the apostate was studying in Athens. Which philosophers likely would have been there then?	4
What was it like to be a homosexual in late Saxon England (1000 to 1066)? Was it possible to have a same sex relationship in anything other than total secrecy?	4
suppose it's 469 and you're Emperor Anthemius, you can either attend a senate session or a public chariot race. which do you choose to go to?	4
in 1 of my favorite stories an spaceship name The GCU Arbitrary sends micro-drones to record our entire cultural/history as of 1977.How long drone have to watch a tribe like thesentinelese(who pass on their knowledge via Oral Traditions)to get a full record of their mythology & assumed self-history?	4
visualize a typical port town in Denmark in AD663(long before the viking age), visualize the same port in AD1063(shortly before the end of the viking age), what differences do you imagine seeing?	4
will questions about 1992 be allowed in few days?	4
I've read/heard descriptions of daily life in ancient Rome, that say fast food stands in cities typically served salad & "cold" meat. does that mean meat that was pre-cooked and allowed to go cold, or were the Romans just constantly exposing themselves to the bacteria & parasites in raw meat?	4
Did the people who lived around the Amazon river in pre-columbian times (circa-1400s) practice many/any forms of agriculture?	4
do you think it's possible to trace a clear line of cause and effect between the international political situation just after the second world war, and the current one?	4

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