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Why didn't the English ever try to divide up New England among titled lords like England still was in 17th century?

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Did the Aztecs (or what ever the people who lived in and around Tenochtitlan actually called them selves) have a longer life expectancy than people who lived Europe circa 1450?

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How did Commodore Perry and/or his men communicate with the Japanese when they got there? Did the Japanese have people who could understand English or did the Americans find & take an interpreter somewhere in the west?

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I read a time travel story once that had a bit in it set in 1250BC Olmec country. When the Olmec crops are described they're all mixed together, with squash vines growing around maize stalks and what not, rather than in separate plots. Is that really how Mesoamerican agriculture worked?

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Were the stories in the Arabian Nights actually widely known in Arabia during the Middle Ages?

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At the time it happened did the Japanese media report the Russian revolution as a negative event?

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in 1313 would most people (as in everyone, not just the upper class and/or literate) in England have heard of king Arthur?

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if you were an English peasant in 1100 (after the Norman conquest) would you life likely be in anyway substantially worse or different than it would have been if lived in the same place 100 years before (before the Norman conquest)?

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When the Vikings showed up in (what is now) Eastern Canada would the natives there have already had bows? If "no" why didn't they adopt it from the Norse?

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You know Pythagoras Theorem. 1000 years ago would many/any thinkers in the Far East (particularly china or japan) have been aware of it? If "yes" were they getting it from some original source unrelated to Pythagoras?

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Why didn't the English ever try to divide up New England among titled lords like England still was in 17th century?	51	AskHistorians
Did the Aztecs (or what ever the people who lived in and around Tenochtitlan actually called them selves) have a longer life expectancy than people who lived Europe circa 1450?	51	AskHistorians
How did Commodore Perry and/or his men communicate with the Japanese when they got there? Did the Japanese have people who could understand English or did the Americans find & take an interpreter somewhere in the west?	50	AskHistorians
I read a time travel story once that had a bit in it set in 1250BC Olmec country. When the Olmec crops are described they're all mixed together, with squash vines growing around maize stalks and what not, rather than in separate plots. Is that really how Mesoamerican agriculture worked?	50	AskHistorians
Were the stories in the Arabian Nights actually widely known in Arabia during the Middle Ages?	50	AskHistorians
At the time it happened did the Japanese media report the Russian revolution as a negative event?	50	AskHistorians
in 1313 would most people (as in everyone, not just the upper class and/or literate) in England have heard of king Arthur?	50	AskHistorians
if you were an English peasant in 1100 (after the Norman conquest) would you life likely be in anyway substantially worse or different than it would have been if lived in the same place 100 years before (before the Norman conquest)?	50	AskHistorians
When the Vikings showed up in (what is now) Eastern Canada would the natives there have already had bows? If "no" why didn't they adopt it from the Norse?	50	AskHistorians
You know Pythagoras Theorem. 1000 years ago would many/any thinkers in the Far East (particularly china or japan) have been aware of it? If "yes" were they getting it from some original source unrelated to Pythagoras?	49	AskHistorians