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There's a bit in HBO Rome where teenage Octavian/Augustus says to his sister that well he thinks there must be some "prime mover" it's ridicules to believe in gods that look like people and interfere in their lives. Is it plausible that Augustus privately believed something along those lines?

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did the Minoans use swords in combat?

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Suppose I went to Rome in AD454 (IE decades after the empire went christian) & went to the Temple of Jupiter. Would the building just be closed & empty, or would it be being used for a different function?

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In the 1930s my great-uncle turned down going to university in favour of getting a job in a pottery bank (I'm from Stoke-on-Trent) because he thought Uni was "soft". Was that sort of attitude common among the English lower classes between the wars?

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how did the Greeks and/or Romans explain the fact you can't see Apollo's chariot when you look at the sun?

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When was the first time after the war of Independence the US and UK governments would have considered each other allies?

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what (if anything) did people in north America and Europe think of Japan in the first half of the 19th century before the US forced them to open up trade?

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Why we use the same word (button) for both cloth fastenings and the things we press to interface with machines?

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Did the native people of the British isles have a concept of personal land ownership before the Roman invasion?

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How can it be that Crassus was richer than the actual roman emporers that came after him?

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There's a bit in HBO Rome where teenage Octavian/Augustus says to his sister that well he thinks there must be some "prime mover" it's ridicules to believe in gods that look like people and interfere in their lives. Is it plausible that Augustus privately believed something along those lines?	5	AskHistorians
did the Minoans use swords in combat?	5	AskHistorians
Suppose I went to Rome in AD454 (IE decades after the empire went christian) & went to the Temple of Jupiter. Would the building just be closed & empty, or would it be being used for a different function?	5	AskHistorians
In the 1930s my great-uncle turned down going to university in favour of getting a job in a pottery bank (I'm from Stoke-on-Trent) because he thought Uni was "soft". Was that sort of attitude common among the English lower classes between the wars?	5	AskHistorians
how did the Greeks and/or Romans explain the fact you can't see Apollo's chariot when you look at the sun?	5	AskHistorians
When was the first time after the war of Independence the US and UK governments would have considered each other allies?	5	AskHistorians
what (if anything) did people in north America and Europe think of Japan in the first half of the 19th century before the US forced them to open up trade?	5	AskHistorians
Why we use the same word (button) for both cloth fastenings and the things we press to interface with machines?	5	AskHistorians
Did the native people of the British isles have a concept of personal land ownership before the Roman invasion?	5	AskHistorians
How can it be that Crassus was richer than the actual roman emporers that came after him?	5	AskHistorians