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suppose you're a merchant living in Luoyang (the capital of the first Jin dynasty) in AD293, how much of your food (if any) is rice?

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All through school I was taught that (classical) Roman and Greek culture were extremely similar, because the Romans copied Greek culture. How reasonable do you think that claim is?

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In the early Middle Ages English supplanted Celtic and Latin as England's main language. If you lived in Britain between 450 and 700 what would the transition look like to you?

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suppose you visited a small (less than 250 people) settlement in Japan (southern Honshu, if that's too broad) in 1717. Suppose you visited a small settlement in China (Hebei, if that's too broad) in 1717. Aside from the language people spoke how would they likely be different from each other?

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Suppose you're an English sailor sometime after 1000 and before 1450. What’s the longest voyager you will plausible ever go on without making land?

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What domesticated animals would you expect to find if you visited the British isles on 2093BC?

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there's an episode of Downton Abbey where one of the servants said that he entertained notions of becoming a school teacher before his family made him leave school to get a job. Assuming he meant a primary school teacher how much additional schooling would that have required in around 1900?

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in the last Vlogbrothers video Hank Green made the claim that there have been Muslims in the US for as long as the country has existed. Is that true? if "yes" what sort of numbers are we talking, and why would Muslims be in the US at a time when it was so fiercely Christian?

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Today you can find entire books or websites that tell you how to know which mushrooms or wild fruit are safe to eat and which will kill you. Would a typical medieval peasant (circa 1116) just know that kind of thing via passed down knowledge?

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a while back some people here told me that there were African American medical doctors before the end of the 19th century. Why would a medical school in 1900 accept a black applicant if they didn’t have to?

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suppose you're a merchant living in Luoyang (the capital of the first Jin dynasty) in AD293, how much of your food (if any) is rice?	43	AskHistorians
All through school I was taught that (classical) Roman and Greek culture were extremely similar, because the Romans copied Greek culture. How reasonable do you think that claim is?	43	AskHistorians
In the early Middle Ages English supplanted Celtic and Latin as England's main language. If you lived in Britain between 450 and 700 what would the transition look like to you?	43	AskHistorians
suppose you visited a small (less than 250 people) settlement in Japan (southern Honshu, if that's too broad) in 1717. Suppose you visited a small settlement in China (Hebei, if that's too broad) in 1717. Aside from the language people spoke how would they likely be different from each other?	43	AskHistorians
Suppose you're an English sailor sometime after 1000 and before 1450. What’s the longest voyager you will plausible ever go on without making land?	43	AskHistorians
What domesticated animals would you expect to find if you visited the British isles on 2093BC?	42	AskHistorians
there's an episode of Downton Abbey where one of the servants said that he entertained notions of becoming a school teacher before his family made him leave school to get a job. Assuming he meant a primary school teacher how much additional schooling would that have required in around 1900?	42	AskHistorians
in the last Vlogbrothers video Hank Green made the claim that there have been Muslims in the US for as long as the country has existed. Is that true? if "yes" what sort of numbers are we talking, and why would Muslims be in the US at a time when it was so fiercely Christian?	42	AskHistorians
Today you can find entire books or websites that tell you how to know which mushrooms or wild fruit are safe to eat and which will kill you. Would a typical medieval peasant (circa 1116) just know that kind of thing via passed down knowledge?	42	AskHistorians
a while back some people here told me that there were African American medical doctors before the end of the 19th century. Why would a medical school in 1900 accept a black applicant if they didn’t have to?	42	AskHistorians