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in 309 the Iberian provinces declared for Constantine well Italy remained in the grip of Emperor Maxentius. Suppose I trade goods between Italy and eastern Iberia, can I still safely operate in 310?	1	AskHistorians
I'm reading a novel set in 255. There's a bit in it where a Persian slave (more or less) says that the Sassanids are destined to destroy the Romans because their ruler is the king of kings and the Zoroastrian God is backing him. Is this something Persian adolescent would realistically say?	1	AskHistorians
I once read a time travel book set in Britain 1250BC, there's a bit where a character is invited into another chracter's hut and offered bread with mutton stew. Did the practice of making food into stew exist in Europe that far back?	1	AskHistorians
When Shakspear wrote his historical plays did he do research (as a modern writer would be expected to) or did he just go of what could remember from school?	1	AskHistorians
I remember being told and subsequently looking up a pre-Norman anglo-saxon theologian who also wrote a bit about classical philosophy, but I've also since read that Roger Bacon was the earliest known native british born philosopher. can anyone suggest to me who I might have looked up the first time?	1	AskHistorians
did the goths and/or the vandals believe in (what we would think of as) the norse pantheon before they respectively converted to forms of christianity?	1	AskHistorians
in 1989 why didn't the USSR try to keep East Germany under communist control by force?	1	AskHistorians
I was reading a fantasy story once where a guy manages to tricks a horse archer into thinking longbows are poorly made because they looks so simple compared to a composite riding bows. is that based on anything historical to do with archery or bow construction?	1	AskHistorians
who had it better in terms of how much land they farmed and how much of it's product they were free to trade them selves. A typical 1 century BC british celtic farmer, or a typical 10 century AD anglo-saxon farmer?	1	AskHistorians
suppose you were worked on a ship (either cargo, passangers, or Coastguard) in the Great Lakes in 1941. Did the lakes lack of navel significants in the war mean you were more or less likely to get drafted into the Navy, than someone working out of a coast port?	1	AskHistorians

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