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Why did France, Italy, Spain and Portugal end up with Latin derived languages where as other parts of the former Roman Empire didn't?

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I saw a TV movie once where some Saxons come back from Hastings and find that there village has been destroyed and Norman colonists are building a new one on the ruins. did any/many normal French men (as opposed to nobles) settle in Britain after 1066?

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I am a well to do intelligent teenage boy living in Ad250 Rome and I want to read Plato's The Republic. Where would I have to go to get a copy?

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were domestic cattle kept by the British in 2100BC?

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in the mid bronze age how common was the use of Bronze for everyday tools (the sort of tools you'd expect to be made of metal in a more modern setting), as well just weaponry?

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why was Hudson Bay called a "bay" when it's larger than a lot of seas? why isn't the Mediterranean called called a "bay"?

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When I visited the HMS Belfast there were hammocks (with disturbing wax works in them) all over the ship, even above heavy machinery. Is this true to life? were they not worried about people falling out & being injured?

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Are the Norse gods and Roman gods at all related mythologies?

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Greeks thought the Earth was round and that the stars/planets were features of the Celestial Spheres. Egyptians believed the world was flat, the sky was the Goddess Nut's belly, & that the day night cycle came from her continually eating & rebirthing the sun. What did Ptolemaic Egyptians believe?

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Were there any feudalistic societies in the Americas before 1492?

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Why did France, Italy, Spain and Portugal end up with Latin derived languages where as other parts of the former Roman Empire didn't?	9	AskHistorians
I saw a TV movie once where some Saxons come back from Hastings and find that there village has been destroyed and Norman colonists are building a new one on the ruins. did any/many normal French men (as opposed to nobles) settle in Britain after 1066?	9	AskHistorians
I am a well to do intelligent teenage boy living in Ad250 Rome and I want to read Plato's The Republic. Where would I have to go to get a copy?	9	AskHistorians
were domestic cattle kept by the British in 2100BC?	9	AskHistorians
in the mid bronze age how common was the use of Bronze for everyday tools (the sort of tools you'd expect to be made of metal in a more modern setting), as well just weaponry?	9	AskHistorians
why was Hudson Bay called a "bay" when it's larger than a lot of seas? why isn't the Mediterranean called called a "bay"?	9	AskHistorians
When I visited the HMS Belfast there were hammocks (with disturbing wax works in them) all over the ship, even above heavy machinery. Is this true to life? were they not worried about people falling out & being injured?	9	AskHistorians
Are the Norse gods and Roman gods at all related mythologies?	9	AskHistorians
Greeks thought the Earth was round and that the stars/planets were features of the Celestial Spheres. Egyptians believed the world was flat, the sky was the Goddess Nut's belly, & that the day night cycle came from her continually eating & rebirthing the sun. What did Ptolemaic Egyptians believe?	9	AskHistorians
Were there any feudalistic societies in the Americas before 1492?	9	AskHistorians