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someone once told me the Spartan version of Greek was deliberately made to be simplistic so the soldiers couldn't think too much (basically the same idea behind New Speak from 1984), is that true?

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when I was little my grandmother told me that the ripples on puddles were fairies dancing on the water (rather then in actuality raindrops too fast & small to see). I always wondered if that was some old folk thing, or just something she made up?

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Suppose you're a common person in Rome in 252. How worried would you be about the Cyprian plague (IE probably a smallpox outbreak) infecting you or your family?

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I listened to a history Podcast that said in the late 1060s the North Of England experienced a famine because the Normans deliberately destroyed people's crops and livestock. Is that accurate? If "yes" how much of the country was effected?

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Are there any conditions that generally have to be in place before a country will elect a totalitarian government?

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I'm on holiday (vacation) in southern Spain (about 70 KM from Alicante), it feels like there's nothing here but tourism oriented settlements. What was day to day life like here 200 years ago?

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Why don't we say classical words like the people at the time actually did?

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The first Japanese satellite Ōsumi, was sent up in 1970. During its development would Japan have had access to everything the US knew about rocket science?

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I once watched a BBC docudrama about santorini falling into the sea (unsurprisingly they called it "Atlantis"). there's a bit in it where a minoan trader is getting drunk at a feast and telling some story that involves egyptians. do we know if the Minoans & Egypt had trade with each other?

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What dictates whether we count someone as a legitimate Roman emporer or a usurper?

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someone once told me the Spartan version of Greek was deliberately made to be simplistic so the soldiers couldn't think too much (basically the same idea behind New Speak from 1984), is that true?	6	AskHistorians
when I was little my grandmother told me that the ripples on puddles were fairies dancing on the water (rather then in actuality raindrops too fast & small to see). I always wondered if that was some old folk thing, or just something she made up?	6	AskHistorians
Suppose you're a common person in Rome in 252. How worried would you be about the Cyprian plague (IE probably a smallpox outbreak) infecting you or your family?	6	AskHistorians
I listened to a history Podcast that said in the late 1060s the North Of England experienced a famine because the Normans deliberately destroyed people's crops and livestock. Is that accurate? If "yes" how much of the country was effected?	6	AskHistorians
Are there any conditions that generally have to be in place before a country will elect a totalitarian government?	6	AskHistorians
I'm on holiday (vacation) in southern Spain (about 70 KM from Alicante), it feels like there's nothing here but tourism oriented settlements. What was day to day life like here 200 years ago?	6	AskHistorians
Why don't we say classical words like the people at the time actually did?	6	AskHistorians
The first Japanese satellite Ōsumi, was sent up in 1970. During its development would Japan have had access to everything the US knew about rocket science?	6	AskHistorians
I once watched a BBC docudrama about santorini falling into the sea (unsurprisingly they called it "Atlantis"). there's a bit in it where a minoan trader is getting drunk at a feast and telling some story that involves egyptians. do we know if the Minoans & Egypt had trade with each other?	6	AskHistorians
What dictates whether we count someone as a legitimate Roman emporer or a usurper?	6	AskHistorians