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I once saw a TV documentary about the history of the Saxons, at one point they showed a grave where a Saxon man was buried in Roman armour. In the 3rd and 4th centuries how normal/unusual was it for Germanic men to join the Roman army?

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did pre-roman celtic britain have a leisure class (IE people who don't need to do any kind of manual labor to live)?

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what was the status of food brought in restaurants or hotels in postwar britain well rationing was still in effect?

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In the history of Rome Podcast Mike Duncan says that a few years before they sacked Rome, The Romans attempted to genocide all the goths in Italy. does "genocide" accurately describe what the Romans were doing?

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When did humans reach the part of Brazil Rio is in?

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Imagine being in Constantinople in 398, Imagine being in Constantinople in 1398. Besides the presence of the Hagia Sophia, what differences would you see?

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I was just watching Slavoj Žižek on YouYube, he says the reason Gulags forced confessions where Nazi concentration camps did not, is that the USSR wanted to at least pretend those people were still in some way a redeemable part of the movement. Nazis were fine just openly condemning people. True?

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Suppose its 1337 and I'm a European peasent girl (age 10) clinging to a peace of drift wood after falling off a cliff into the Mediterranean a day before. Suppose a Byzantine/Roman fishing ship spots me. Am I going to spend the rest of my life a slave?

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2222 years ago would the Kush (the ancestors of modern Nubians) have considered the peoples of western/northern Europe to be "barbarians" as the Greeks, Carthaginians, Egyptians, and Romans did at the time?

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Wikipedia says that Irish speaking people immigrated to the isle of Man around the 5th century AD. does that mean they just colonized empty parts of the island, or that they violently invaded and dominated the native population?

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I once saw a TV documentary about the history of the Saxons, at one point they showed a grave where a Saxon man was buried in Roman armour. In the 3rd and 4th centuries how normal/unusual was it for Germanic men to join the Roman army?	6	AskHistorians
did pre-roman celtic britain have a leisure class (IE people who don't need to do any kind of manual labor to live)?	6	AskHistorians
what was the status of food brought in restaurants or hotels in postwar britain well rationing was still in effect?	6	AskHistorians
In the history of Rome Podcast Mike Duncan says that a few years before they sacked Rome, The Romans attempted to genocide all the goths in Italy. does "genocide" accurately describe what the Romans were doing?	6	AskHistorians
When did humans reach the part of Brazil Rio is in?	6	AskHistorians
Imagine being in Constantinople in 398, Imagine being in Constantinople in 1398. Besides the presence of the Hagia Sophia, what differences would you see?	6	AskHistorians
I was just watching Slavoj Žižek on YouYube, he says the reason Gulags forced confessions where Nazi concentration camps did not, is that the USSR wanted to at least pretend those people were still in some way a redeemable part of the movement. Nazis were fine just openly condemning people. True?	6	AskHistorians
Suppose its 1337 and I'm a European peasent girl (age 10) clinging to a peace of drift wood after falling off a cliff into the Mediterranean a day before. Suppose a Byzantine/Roman fishing ship spots me. Am I going to spend the rest of my life a slave?	6	AskHistorians
2222 years ago would the Kush (the ancestors of modern Nubians) have considered the peoples of western/northern Europe to be "barbarians" as the Greeks, Carthaginians, Egyptians, and Romans did at the time?	6	AskHistorians
Wikipedia says that Irish speaking people immigrated to the isle of Man around the 5th century AD. does that mean they just colonized empty parts of the island, or that they violently invaded and dominated the native population?	6	AskHistorians