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If you lived in the near East or North Africa 3000 years ago, was it particularly dangerous to eat pork (IE did the Jewish law have a practical backing at one time?)?
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in The Roman Historical novel I read a few months back, there's a bit where the characters buy spiced Sausages from a street stall. I know the Romans had spices but were they any where near cheap enough for them to be used in fast food?
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I can think of at least 3 post- apocalypse stories where China is broken up into several small states controlled by competing violent war lords, (I think) because of the assumption that’s just what China reverts to when it’s not unified. Historically do you think that assumption has much foundation?
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in ancient Egypt (lets say in around 2000BCE) how common were (competent) archers? if there was a battle what proportion of Egyptian combatants would be bowmen?
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In English versions of the old testament there's references to wine. Would wine have really been drank in (what is now) Israel 3000 to 3500 years ago?
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[META] the Mods originally offered me a different flair title but I asked for "Interesting Inquirer" instead because I like alliteration. Does the rest of this community(for the most part) like the title because I don't think it's fair that everybody be stuck with something I made up on the spot?
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my grandmother once told me they use to love it when American soldiers came in the theatre she worked in, because they didn’t know English money and tended to over pay for tickets. Why would there have been many American servicemen in Staffordshire in WWII?
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300 years ago in the Ottoman Empire in what ways were men & women treated differently under the law?
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