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Imagine a Chinese aristocrat family eating an evening meal in 77 BC. Imagine a Chinese aristocrat family eating an evening meal in AD 1733. What differences would you expect to see in terms of cuisine and etiquette?	1789	AskHistorians
The first Holmes book has subplot that depicts Mormons openly practicing polygamy & forcefully preventing anyone from leaving their communities. Conan Doyle Defended the depiction, claiming it was based on real historical events. What was he referring to? & how reasonable is the assertion?	1659	AskHistorians
suppose it's AD300 and you ask an upperclass Roman who the emperor was 250 years years ago. Is it likely they'd be able to tell you without having to look it up?	1648	AskHistorians
In 1956 My grandmother was fined for buying a tin soup on Sunday, which was apparently illegal in the England at the time. she got a pardon from the Queen in 1961 as (according to her) they repealed the law she broke. Any idea what that law was and why it existed in the first place?	1642	AskHistorians
Wikipedia has the Praetorian Guard on it's list of secret police forces. Do you think it's appropriate to call them that?	1618	AskHistorians
Suppose you run a bakery in London in 1271. Besides risen bread what (if anything) do you sell?	1582	AskHistorians
There's an episode of the Twilight zone where they imply Adam & Eve were aliens who's ship crashed on Earth. why didn't that cause a scandal for the show in 1963 America?	1560	AskHistorians
When Japanese people first travelled (at least for the first time in some centuries) to the west in 19th centuries, how did they react to the contrast between Japan's set up and that of industrialized countries? How did they describe Europe to their countrymen back home?	1467	AskHistorians
In the Revenant there's a bit where one of the French trappers makes an offhand rude comment (don't recall what), it provokes the Arikara chief to launch into a tirade about Europeans taking over the continent. Would a Native American in that time & place have that understanding of history?	1439	AskHistorians
900 years ago what's the farthest the Chinese, Koreans or Japanese, had explored north into what is now eastern Russia? what would there maps have said about the region? did they have the faintest idea Alaska was there?	1433	AskHistorians

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