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in the 18th century were there any people who thought orchestral music was terrible, despite what an obvious advancement over what came before it seems to us?
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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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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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I've been told I have to read Nineteenth-Century European History 1815-1914’, by Alan Farmer for a course. obviously I have to read it regardless, but can anyone tell me if its actually a decent source?
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Suppose I'm an English peasant in AD 1250 and I kill a fox (or some other small predator) on my strip of land. Do I eat it or throw it away?
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300 years ago how plausible would Europeans (at least educated ones) have considered the notion of finding a previously unknown, large scale Urban civilisation somewhere in the unexplored (by them at least) parts of North America?
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how did the native people of the Canary Islands live before the Spanish took over? if I walked into a Guanches village in 1116 what would I see people doing in order to support themselves, what would the dwellings look like, what would the tools and weapons look like and be made of?
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Did Iron Age (circa 190BC) Jews & Zoroastrians believe the supposed ocean above the world (IE the one that's supposed to have supplied the water for the Great flood) had fish living in it like the seas down here do?
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