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In world war 2 Japan what (if anything?) would happen to a normal person if they tried to publicly speak out agienst the government's foreign policy, in someway?
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when did a majority of astronomers start to hypothesize ("hypothesize" not "prove") that the stars were probably many tens of thousands of times farther away than anything in the solar system? When did they start to hypothesize stars were other suns?
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what motivated so many European tribes to convert to Arian Christianity? what were they getting out of that religion that they weren't getting out of paganism?
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in classical times were camp followers usually natives of the army's homeland who'd followed them into enemy territory, or were they usually natives of the invaded land who weren’t too scrupulous about who they dealt with?
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suppose you were mutilated in some humiliating way (like loosing your legs or even your testicals or something) at a young age. If you were eldest the son of an English lord circa 1150, would he be likely to disinherit you in favour of a younger brother?
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“It (the bible) does not endorse chattel slavery. It describes a system of indentured servitude widely used in ancient cultures, and provides a method of dealing with prisoners of war that avoids execution”. How do you respond to the assertion that chattel slavery didn’t exist in Judea or Rome?
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in the late 2nd century the Bosporan Kingdom, A Greek client state of Rome, launched a military campaign against Scythian tribes to the north of them. would the soldiers who carried out this campaign have been using Roman amour, weapons & tactics, or ancient Greek amour, weapons & tactics?
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Suppose I'm a typical freeman living in Rome (the actual city) in 266. What effect (if any) would all the barbarian incursions and usurpers around the borders of the empire, have on my day to day life?
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