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suppose you farm millet or Rice in China in 1395. How would your day to day life be different from that of someone farming the same crop in the same place 2500 years before?

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I once saw an illustration of a Roman bath complex that showed young boys dive bombing in the pool. Were children allowed in the baths? If "yes" would the Romans have tolerated that kind of behaviour from them?

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In the present day west we tend to attribute particular personality traits to certain animals (fox=sly, owl=wise, cat=stuck up, etc). Did Native (North) American tribes anthropomorphise animals in that way? If so did they come up with different imagined traits for the same animals?

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What would a roman aristocrat eat and drink in the course of a normal day?

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Suppose it's WW2 and you are a low ranking Axis soldier who has been taken captured by Alied soldiers. What are the odds that you'll killed out of hand instead of being taken in? How much do those odds vary between countries?

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suppose you're a samurai class (married) woman in 1813, and you've just gone into labour. what does your family do? who (if anyone) is brought into assist with the birth?

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In the late 290s, before Diocletian's persecutions, how unusual was it for Christian and non Christian Romans to marry each other?

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Suppose I want to find the language ancestral to modern Greek in 2000BC, where in the world should I go?

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why were the portraits on classical coins so much cruder than the ones from the last few hundred years?

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you know all those laws the British past in the second half of the 19th century concerning universal education and child labor. was their much of a delay between those laws being passed and people actually widely obeying them?

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suppose you farm millet or Rice in China in 1395. How would your day to day life be different from that of someone farming the same crop in the same place 2500 years before?	4	AskHistorians
I once saw an illustration of a Roman bath complex that showed young boys dive bombing in the pool. Were children allowed in the baths? If "yes" would the Romans have tolerated that kind of behaviour from them?	4	AskHistorians
In the present day west we tend to attribute particular personality traits to certain animals (fox=sly, owl=wise, cat=stuck up, etc). Did Native (North) American tribes anthropomorphise animals in that way? If so did they come up with different imagined traits for the same animals?	4	AskHistorians
What would a roman aristocrat eat and drink in the course of a normal day?	4	AskHistorians
Suppose it's WW2 and you are a low ranking Axis soldier who has been taken captured by Alied soldiers. What are the odds that you'll killed out of hand instead of being taken in? How much do those odds vary between countries?	4	AskHistorians
suppose you're a samurai class (married) woman in 1813, and you've just gone into labour. what does your family do? who (if anyone) is brought into assist with the birth?	4	AskHistorians
In the late 290s, before Diocletian's persecutions, how unusual was it for Christian and non Christian Romans to marry each other?	4	AskHistorians
Suppose I want to find the language ancestral to modern Greek in 2000BC, where in the world should I go?	4	AskHistorians
why were the portraits on classical coins so much cruder than the ones from the last few hundred years?	4	AskHistorians
you know all those laws the British past in the second half of the 19th century concerning universal education and child labor. was their much of a delay between those laws being passed and people actually widely obeying them?	4	AskHistorians