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when the Dutch and the British were colonizing/conquering South Africa, were they aware that the Bantu and the Khoisan peoples had separate cultures & separate senses of ethnic identity?	3
in 1899 did most biologists (in Europe or North America) accept the theory of evolution as scientific fact?	3
When did societies in Europe (or Europe's colonies?) start requiring that professional Engineers must have at least some theoretical understanding of the mathematics and science underpinning what they do?	3
Aside from what counted as acceptable clothing how would the expected Japanese Imperial court etiquette of 1828 (sometime before the Meiji Restoration) be different from that of 1928 (sometime after the Meiji Restoration)?	3
Suppose I lived where I live now (the Midlands of Britain) but in AD 450, what’s my first language most likely to be?	3
You know Carson in Downton Abbey. in England a century ago were butlers & domestic servants in general known for been more than usually (usually for working class people) rightwing, reactionary or snobbish?	3
did food change (both in the sense of new cooking styles as well as new ingredients) much for normal English people after 1066?	3
My grandfather did NationalService in a lab where RAF instruments were tested. He left in 1954, an officer told him he could get in trouble if he talked about all the stuff he’d seen. I find it hard to believe someone so low level could have seen anything sensitive. Was that just a standard warning?	3
The Old Testament says Hebrew slaves are to be afforded more rights than non-Hebrew Slaves(IE it says not to kill them, & to offer to manumit eventually). Do we know whether or not people in ancient Judea (IE before circa AD 70)treated Native/Jewish slaves, & foreign slaves any differently?	3
in the 470s (when the western Roman empire fell) what (if anything) did the Roman Senate do? did it still have any political power left?	3

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