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in 1800 did the rulers of japan believe they were adequately well defended for the eventuality of an external force attacking the home islands? If "yes" how well founded was that belief? If "no" why were they content for the system as is to endure for more than another half century?
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Suppose you're an adult Japanese person living between bombing of Nagasaki and the arrival of MacArthur. What's your diet like in terms of quantity and quality?
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Imagine Portus (Rome's main port) in AD299, Besides grain what trade goods would you expect to see the ships bringing in for sale in Rome?
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at school all I remember being taught about the open field system is that it restricted how much land farmers could use and what they could do with it and so held back innovations in agriculture like crop rotation. Exactly why did the Anglo-Saxons adopt it in the first place?
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today monarchs tend to have official artists for anything official that bears their lickness, particularly sculptures for the images on coins. did roman Emperors have artists tasked with making sure their likenesses on coins were good?
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Aside from Nixon, who actually did it, what's the closest any U.S. president has come to stepping down mid term?
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200 years ago would most people in Japan have known who Buddha was and the basic details of his life (in the same was most 1930s Americans know who Jesus was & the basic details of his life)?
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