askhistorians

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imagine a farmstead in England in 1702, imagine a farmstead in New England in 1702. what differences would you expect to see?	41
Suppose you’re a (working class) Jewish man living in the city of Rome in AD454 (IE after the empire went Christian). Will you face much/any anti-Semitism in your daily life? if “Yes” what form will it take?	41
before europeans arrived in the area did people on madagascar trade with mainland africa? if "yes" what would the ships they used have looked like?	40
During the Perry Expedition what did the Japanese think of the Americans’ manners and generally how they interacted with each other?	40
Did the declining wealth and political power of the Byzantine Empire actually have any effect on the lives of the Emperors? Would a Byzantine emperor in circa 1390 be any poorer or have live any more frugally than a Byzantine emperor in circa 1120?	40
Did the Romans understand what inflation was?	40
I was reading a historical novel set in AD255, there's a bit in it where a Roman ship is attacked by some gothic long ships that entered the Mediterranean via the Bosporus and the Black Sea. Is that a remotely plausible situation?	40
Suppose you went to an inhabitant of Tenochtitlan in 1414 and asked them who the Mayans were and what they were like. What do you think they'd say?	40
1000 years ago were any of the societies in south/east asia, excluding the aborigines themselves, aware of the existence of australia? if "yes" which ones? if "no" why not?	40
at the end of the second world war how did the allies go about reuniting families, particularly children, who'd been split up as a result of some of their members being caught behind captured/enemy territory & consequently intended?	40

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