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In the Audio Commentary on the HBO Rome season 1 DVD, The show's production staff claim that if a Roman man (IE Lucius Vorenus) didn't murder his wife for adultery, he'd face disgrace and derision in his community. Is that true?
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"He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill" Was Shakespeare genuinely unaware that most of the Gallic "captives" Caesar sent to Rome just became slaves, rather than being "ransomed" & send back to their homeland?
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would all the unskilled laborers in Rome (circa AD150) have been slaves? did day laborers exist back then?
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in one of his books David Graeber asserts that cross dressing was socially acceptable in ancient mesopotamia. Is that true?
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how did stock trading work before instant communication? like if you were in LA in the 1860s wouldn't the info you'd be getting from New York be out of date?
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did you not have to be formally PHD educated in a subject to teach it at university level a century ago?
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1400 years ago if one Saxon kingdom took part of another's territory in a war, would it be considered normal for the soldiers to gang rap any peasant women they found? NSFW
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