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A hypothesis Ive encountered several times online, says that 5000to4000 yrs ago European men & women supposedly treated each other somewhat equally then Proto-Indo-European speakers took over & imposed patriarchy on to western civilization for the first time. Is there Any real validity to this idea?	125
who's the earliest Japanese emperor you're reasonably sure actually existed?	123
There's a bit in Boardwalk Empire where an Italian gangster orders spaghetti in a diner, just to see how badly they make it. Was spaghetti popular enough by 1923 that you could get it in non Italian restruants? Were roadside diners a thing by 1923?	122
suppose you're an English fisherman in the 1290s. what's the farthest out of site of the coast you're likely to ever go?	122
did the eye witnesses at Hiroshima guess that it was some kind of attack or did they just assume it was natural disaster of some kind?	122
When the Edo-period is talked about or depicted in fiction I always get the impression that people seem to think that 19th century Japan was sort of trapped in the Middle Ages until Commodore Perry showed up. Is that how outsiders viewed Japan at the time?	122
TV tropes gives Tovar in Venezuela as a supposed example of a real life "lost colony" because, according to TV tropes, it was cut off from the rest of the world and presumed destroyed from 1843 to 1953. Is any of that true?	121
If I asked a learned classical Greek how it could be just that some men should be kept as slaves well others were free, what would he most likely say?	120
In The Man In The Highcastle universe the Japanese conquer the west coast of America & turn it into a colony. During WW2 did Americans really believe the Japanese wanted to, or were capable of doing that?	119
The Middle Kingdom Egyptians use to trade Hippo tusk Ivory to other societies around the Mediterranean. Hippos are hard to kill with modern guns, how did the Egyptians hunt them with Bronze Age weapons?	119

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