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Suppose it's the 16th or 17th and you're a European explorer who's just come ashore in an unexplored part of the Americas. What's the first thing you're likely to do upon encountering natives? How do you go about trying to communicate with them?

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had any of the coal in Britain been used by 1212BC?

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why didn't the Māori just farm moas if they liked eating them so much?

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if I went to London in AD 250 would I see different clothes and architecture than I would in a Roman city where it does not drop below freezing regularly every winter?

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suppose you visited where Maryland now is 2000 years ago, do you think you'd find people speaking an Algonquian language (the language family of the natives who lived there when Europeans showed up)?

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Would the tradition history of Rome (Romulus and Remus, The Rape of the Sabine Women, so on and so fourth) be as well known in 1395 Constantinople, as it was in Rome itself 1300 years before?

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What's the earliest Greek source that makes reference to the the Romans?

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1500 years ago what materials did the Mayans use the most to make hand tools and weapons?

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When Hannibal was growing up in Iberia what were his living conditions like? Would he have been in a house like back in Carthage?

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when did european peasants start using cast iron Wood-burning stove instead of just cooking things directly over an open fire?

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Suppose it's the 16th or 17th and you're a European explorer who's just come ashore in an unexplored part of the Americas. What's the first thing you're likely to do upon encountering natives? How do you go about trying to communicate with them?	6	AskHistorians
had any of the coal in Britain been used by 1212BC?	6	AskHistorians
why didn't the Māori just farm moas if they liked eating them so much?	6	AskHistorians
if I went to London in AD 250 would I see different clothes and architecture than I would in a Roman city where it does not drop below freezing regularly every winter?	6	AskHistorians
suppose you visited where Maryland now is 2000 years ago, do you think you'd find people speaking an Algonquian language (the language family of the natives who lived there when Europeans showed up)?	6	AskHistorians
Would the tradition history of Rome (Romulus and Remus, The Rape of the Sabine Women, so on and so fourth) be as well known in 1395 Constantinople, as it was in Rome itself 1300 years before?	6	AskHistorians
What's the earliest Greek source that makes reference to the the Romans?	6	AskHistorians
1500 years ago what materials did the Mayans use the most to make hand tools and weapons?	6	AskHistorians
When Hannibal was growing up in Iberia what were his living conditions like? Would he have been in a house like back in Carthage?	6	AskHistorians
when did european peasants start using cast iron Wood-burning stove instead of just cooking things directly over an open fire?	6	AskHistorians