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suppose I'm walking through a Mayan city in 1116, suppose I'm walking through an Aztec city in 1466. what differences would see in terms dress, goods being traded, and architecture?

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Suppose I am a normal (non enslaved) person in Carthage in 156BC. How worried am I about Rome attacking again and destroying my already reduced civilisation?

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At the time King Lear was first preformed would most educated people in England have been aware Lear was likely mythic? It it likely Shakespeare was aware when he wrote it?

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An English teacher once told me that Shakespeare's Prospero only sinks magic books to the bottom of the sea because the Tudor era English would have found the notion of destroying books, sources of wisdom, aberrant. Is that so?

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When ancient near Eastern rulers (Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Parthians, etc) took treasure as plunder after a battle did they actually mean to spend it at some later date, or was it just meant as an ostentatious show of wealth and power?

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is there any legal precedent on the issue of whether babies born to POWs being held on US soil, should be entitled to US citizenship or not?

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a peasent in AD1117 England, a peasent in AD1117 Japan. averaged out over a year who spends more time working?

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200 years ago was literacy more common in Japan or China?

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what is the earliest period we are primarily reliant on historians rather than archaeologists for information about? what is the earliest period historians can and do research?

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why did the Romans name planets after the Gods?

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suppose I'm walking through a Mayan city in 1116, suppose I'm walking through an Aztec city in 1466. what differences would see in terms dress, goods being traded, and architecture?	25
Suppose I am a normal (non enslaved) person in Carthage in 156BC. How worried am I about Rome attacking again and destroying my already reduced civilisation?	25
At the time King Lear was first preformed would most educated people in England have been aware Lear was likely mythic? It it likely Shakespeare was aware when he wrote it?	25
An English teacher once told me that Shakespeare's Prospero only sinks magic books to the bottom of the sea because the Tudor era English would have found the notion of destroying books, sources of wisdom, aberrant. Is that so?	25
When ancient near Eastern rulers (Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Parthians, etc) took treasure as plunder after a battle did they actually mean to spend it at some later date, or was it just meant as an ostentatious show of wealth and power?	25
is there any legal precedent on the issue of whether babies born to POWs being held on US soil, should be entitled to US citizenship or not?	25
a peasent in AD1117 England, a peasent in AD1117 Japan. averaged out over a year who spends more time working?	25
200 years ago was literacy more common in Japan or China?	25
what is the earliest period we are primarily reliant on historians rather than archaeologists for information about? what is the earliest period historians can and do research?	25
why did the Romans name planets after the Gods?	25