/u/grapp's posts
in 1899 did most biologists (in Europe or North America) accept the theory of evolution as scientific fact?
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when the Dutch and the British were colonizing/conquering South Africa, were they aware that the Bantu and the Khoisan peoples had separate cultures & separate senses of ethnic identity?
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How (if in anyway what so ever) did the civil war, & subsequent puritanical rule of Oliver Cromwell, effect the operations of the British East India Company?
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Did the Vikings (circa AD900) accept the Greek model of the Cosmos (IE the earth being spherical with the sun, moon, stars and planets revolving round it)?
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I have a framed collection of pre-decimal coins. The farthing has "1939" written on it. Did the Royal Mint continue to operate during WW2? If "yes" who would it have been staffed by after the able bodied men were drafted?
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Rome got so large because the aristocrats in Rome were driving all the regular farmers off their land so they could set up slave run estates, all the displaced farmers went to the city. do we know whether or not the same thing was going on in Carthage's empire before Rome destroyed it?
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during the periods of peace between the Punic wars was their much peaceful trade between Rome & Carthage, or was their too much mutual animosity for that?
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a while back someone on here told me that Han Era Chinese cities had strict curfews for the population, and marketplaces were only allowed to be open for a portion of the daylight hours. if that is accurate (tell me if its not) I'm curious as to whether or not Han cities had taverns & bars in them?
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