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were the Servile Wars the only slave revolts in Roman times, or just the most significant ones?

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I once read a scifi story set in the 1940s. There's a bit in it where Stalin describes an alien computer as "an adding machine that can almost think" and doesn't seem to have heard of computers before. Is that accurate for Stalin in 1942?

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how did public market places work before coined money?

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in the first Riverworld book Peter Jairus Frigate (an self insert of the arthur Philip José Farmer) says his main claim to fame is having translated the Iliad into samoan. the book was written in 1971, had that been done by then (or if not, by now?)?

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the way I've always been told it pompey wanted to wait Caesar out but the senate pressured him into fighting. As I understand it the army were utterly loyal to pompey and if anything slightly disdainful of the senate, why couldn't he just ignore them?

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in the History of Rome Podcast Mike Duncan describes the persecution of the Goths in Western Roman empire (IE right before they sacked Rome in 410) as an attempted Genocide. Do you think it's accurate to call it that?

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my grandfather was on HMS Matchless when it helped sink the Scharnhorst. I never knew that took place on Christmas day when he was alive, if I had known I'd have asked him if they did Christmas stuff on boxing day or just didn't bother at all in 1943?

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What was daily life like for the average nuclear family (two opposite sex parents and their not yet adult children) at the start of 1518 in England?

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did Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (IE the conical last king of Rome, "Tarquin the proud") & Lucius Junius Brutus (IE the man supposed to have overthrown Tarquin) really exist?

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Is it true native Americans visited Europe in the second century AD?

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were the Servile Wars the only slave revolts in Roman times, or just the most significant ones?	8	AskHistorians
I once read a scifi story set in the 1940s. There's a bit in it where Stalin describes an alien computer as "an adding machine that can almost think" and doesn't seem to have heard of computers before. Is that accurate for Stalin in 1942?	7	AskHistorians
how did public market places work before coined money?	7	AskHistorians
in the first Riverworld book Peter Jairus Frigate (an self insert of the arthur Philip José Farmer) says his main claim to fame is having translated the Iliad into samoan. the book was written in 1971, had that been done by then (or if not, by now?)?	7	AskHistorians
the way I've always been told it pompey wanted to wait Caesar out but the senate pressured him into fighting. As I understand it the army were utterly loyal to pompey and if anything slightly disdainful of the senate, why couldn't he just ignore them?	7	AskHistorians
in the History of Rome Podcast Mike Duncan describes the persecution of the Goths in Western Roman empire (IE right before they sacked Rome in 410) as an attempted Genocide. Do you think it's accurate to call it that?	7	AskHistorians
my grandfather was on HMS Matchless when it helped sink the Scharnhorst. I never knew that took place on Christmas day when he was alive, if I had known I'd have asked him if they did Christmas stuff on boxing day or just didn't bother at all in 1943?	7	AskHistorians
What was daily life like for the average nuclear family (two opposite sex parents and their not yet adult children) at the start of 1518 in England?	7	AskHistorians
did Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (IE the conical last king of Rome, "Tarquin the proud") & Lucius Junius Brutus (IE the man supposed to have overthrown Tarquin) really exist?	7	AskHistorians
Is it true native Americans visited Europe in the second century AD?	7	AskHistorians