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would what Plato spoke be at all recognisable/intelligible to a modern Greek (like how medieval English is confusing but still very recognisably English) or would it just sound like a totally foreign language at this point?
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suppose it's 469 and you're Emperor Anthemius, you can either attend a senate session or a public chariot race. which do you choose to go to?
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There’s a bit in alt-history story I like, where Stalin orders his scientist to make a nuke in the next 18 months. When he’s told it'll need to be at least 4 years he threatens to have them all "liquidated" in 18 months if they have no bomb by then. Is that kind of decision in character for him?
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Last summer I head a historical novel series about Year of the Six Roman Emperors (AD 238). When Emperor Maximinus's loyalists take back Carthage they effectively sack the City. Is that realistic? would the Roman army really rape & pillage a major city within the empire?
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Suppose your the teenage son of samurai in 1415, how much (if any) of your time is taken up with combat and martial arts practice?
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aside from those that were crucified, whenever the Romans defeated part of Spartacus's hord did they take slaves like the usually would after a win, or did they try to return them to their original owners?
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we tend to romanticize the age of discovery (lets say that means 1400 through 1800) in retrospect, how did people (European or north american) at the time view the endeavor of finding "new" lands and colonizing them?
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did the ancient celts have a tradition of communal feasting on importants days of the year and/or important events?
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