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"they make a desolation and call it peace" why did Tacitus give that line to the Caledonian chief in his "history"? Why did he write a tirade against his own sociaty?	21
did the vikings worship Thor yet in 100BC?	21
Someone (someone on here I think ...but I’m not sure) once told me that the people who lived in Jōmon period Japan didn't become the modern Japanese people, instead they were displaced and largely wiped out by the first Japanese speaks who came from elsewhere in Asia. Is that likely or true?	21
Suppose it's 1769 and you suggest to a Samurai that in a just system anyone in Japan would be able to grow up to do have the same rank they do regardless of heritage so long as they had the innate ability. How do you think they'd respond?	21
I remember once reading that Constantine put a notorious child killer to death in the arena. Can anyone elucidate on that incident? If "no" can anyone tell me about any other Roman serial killers & how they were viewed/punished?	21
I'm watching a BBC period drama set in the 1780s. there's a court scene where, for some reason, both the plaintiff and the accused are sitting behind curtains so nobody in the can see who they are. was that a real thing? if "Yes" what was the point of it?	21
After WW2 why did the US occupy Japan and eventually install a new government instead of just arresting all the war criminals and disarming their military to the extent that they couldn’t threaten the west anymore?	21
would I find farmers or hunter gatherers, were I to visit Rwanda in 1138BC?	21
I've been told (by Crash Course History) that WW2 Japanese soldiers were expected to scavenge or steal food from occupied territory instead of being sent rations from home. Does that mean men in the Imperial Navy ate better? if "yes" did that effect what service Japanese people tried to enter?	21
Suppose you're walking along the docks of a Meditarnian city (presumably Egyptian or Phoenicia) in 1117BC. Would you expect to see many/any foreign trader ships, or had the Greek dark age led to the end of international trade by then?	21

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