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Around the 2nd or 1st century BC lions went exstict in Europe. Were the Romans and/or Greeks aware that they'd died out because people over hunted them?

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What's the oldest hand to hand martial art form in North East Asia (IE Japan, China or Korea)?

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why/how did English become the lingua franca of most of the human race?

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Suppose I'm a common ancient Egyptian (circa 2000 BC) and I've been called up to fight in some conflict. Do I have any weapons training whatsoever beyond "stick them with the pointy end"?

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how did peasants come to replace salves as the primary farm laborers of Europe after the fall of Rome?

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is it genuinely the case that philosophy & science started to emerge mid-way through the first millennium BCE, or is just the case that we don't have good records from before that? if it really is the former, what was so special about that point in time?

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who lived in north Africa, west of Egypt and before Carthage?

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When & why did cloaks full out of fashion in the west?

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what (if anything) happened to you during the WW2 if you ignored the blackout rules and made a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night?

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yesterday I was listening to a podcast about the history of Mormonism. At one point the host offhandedly mentions that some people in the early 1800s thought the native Americans were descended from shipwrecked Romans. was that a real hypothesis/theory? if "yes" how popular was it?

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Around the 2nd or 1st century BC lions went exstict in Europe. Were the Romans and/or Greeks aware that they'd died out because people over hunted them?	7	AskHistorians
What's the oldest hand to hand martial art form in North East Asia (IE Japan, China or Korea)?	7	AskHistorians
why/how did English become the lingua franca of most of the human race?	7	AskHistorians
Suppose I'm a common ancient Egyptian (circa 2000 BC) and I've been called up to fight in some conflict. Do I have any weapons training whatsoever beyond "stick them with the pointy end"?	7	AskHistorians
how did peasants come to replace salves as the primary farm laborers of Europe after the fall of Rome?	7	AskHistorians
is it genuinely the case that philosophy & science started to emerge mid-way through the first millennium BCE, or is just the case that we don't have good records from before that? if it really is the former, what was so special about that point in time?	6	AskHistorians
who lived in north Africa, west of Egypt and before Carthage?	6	AskHistorians
When & why did cloaks full out of fashion in the west?	6	AskHistorians
what (if anything) happened to you during the WW2 if you ignored the blackout rules and made a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night?	6	AskHistorians
yesterday I was listening to a podcast about the history of Mormonism. At one point the host offhandedly mentions that some people in the early 1800s thought the native Americans were descended from shipwrecked Romans. was that a real hypothesis/theory? if "yes" how popular was it?	6	AskHistorians