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was Aristotle a more widely read and influential philosopher in the time of the roman empire, or the high middle ages?

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I once read a time travel story partly set in 1250 BC Africa. There’s a bit in it where a man from Gambia encounters some Cape San, he concludes they're primitive because they don't have any domestic plants or animals. Would people in West Africa have had domestic plants or animals that far back?

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How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?

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you know how in films set in the middle ages they'll put actors in costumes with a lot of form fitting leather parts if they want them to look cool and bad-ass. In Britain 950 years ago was is particularly normal to make clothes out of leather?

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Would people in Britain have been awar that the Romans were coming before they got there in AD43?

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In 1714 who had more money and more food, the average New England inhabitant or the average England inhabitant?

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I remember once being told that in the Middle Ages and before young children were very just given diapers/loincloths and rapped in blankets when it was cold because the cost of colth made it too expensive to give fitted clothes to someone who'd grow out of them so fast. Is that at all true?

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did the native Americans (in New England specifically) have a mid winter Celebration like most european cultures do (IE a christmas analogue)?

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When the European arrived in New England did the natives have any idea who they were?

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How often did plains Indians (circa 1450) have to do Buffalo jumps (IE drive bison over a cliff)? How much meat did they typically get from doing it and how long did it last them?

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was Aristotle a more widely read and influential philosopher in the time of the roman empire, or the high middle ages?	11	AskHistorians
I once read a time travel story partly set in 1250 BC Africa. There’s a bit in it where a man from Gambia encounters some Cape San, he concludes they're primitive because they don't have any domestic plants or animals. Would people in West Africa have had domestic plants or animals that far back?	11	AskHistorians
How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?	11	AskHistorians
you know how in films set in the middle ages they'll put actors in costumes with a lot of form fitting leather parts if they want them to look cool and bad-ass. In Britain 950 years ago was is particularly normal to make clothes out of leather?	11	AskHistorians
Would people in Britain have been awar that the Romans were coming before they got there in AD43?	11	AskHistorians
In 1714 who had more money and more food, the average New England inhabitant or the average England inhabitant?	11	AskHistorians
I remember once being told that in the Middle Ages and before young children were very just given diapers/loincloths and rapped in blankets when it was cold because the cost of colth made it too expensive to give fitted clothes to someone who'd grow out of them so fast. Is that at all true?	11	AskHistorians
did the native Americans (in New England specifically) have a mid winter Celebration like most european cultures do (IE a christmas analogue)?	11	AskHistorians
When the European arrived in New England did the natives have any idea who they were?	11	AskHistorians
How often did plains Indians (circa 1450) have to do Buffalo jumps (IE drive bison over a cliff)? How much meat did they typically get from doing it and how long did it last them?	11	AskHistorians