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In New England in 1414 would there have been more people, settlements and cultivated land than in 1114? Was the population of North America rising before 1492?	105
When and where was the first time in history a society outlawed slavery?	105
Suppose I was born in Japan 1797. As a child what sort of supernatural entities would I be taught to be afraid (I mean like ghosts or werewolves in our culture)?	105
There's an episode of doctor who set on a Russian submarine in 1983 (it's a modern episode they go back to 83). One of the crew is a Duran Duran fan. Would you have been able to legally buy Duran Duran tape cassettes and/or LPs in the USSR?	105
In 1714 would most academics in Europe and New England have been confident they weren't going to find another large (Aztec like) urban civilisation in the parts of North America that hadn’t been explored by Europeans yet?	104
In the second and third century I understand Rome had trade & diplomatic links China. Would they have been at all aware of the political upheaval that took place there at the time (after the Han Dynasty fell)?	104
Why didn't Islam reach the Canary Islands, like much of the rest of North Africa, before the Spanish got there?	102
Suppose you live and work on a collectivist Russian farm in 1955. What's your daily life like? How does it compare (in terms or work load and efficiency) to farming in a capitalist state like the UK or the US?	100
the other day I was watching a (supposedly) education youtube show where a guy was talking about Mansa Musa. towards the end he said that there's some evidence that Musa had send ships across the Atlantic. what is talking about? & does it carry any Weight?	100
both Christian and Islamic peoples felt the couldn't co-exist with polytheists and tried to wipe them out, how harmonies was the relationship between Zoroastrians and polytheists groups in the Parthian Empire and/or the Sasanian Empire?	100

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