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suppose you asked an educated English aristocrat in 1878, what they thought and/or wanted to happen to India and it's people in the future (like centuries in the future). what do you think they would say?

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in HBO Rome when Lucius Vorenus gets back to Rome he finds out that the paymasters have cut his family off, claiming he was dead, he says "I'll see to it". was this common in reality? if this really happened to you did you have an legal recourse?

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Suppose I got either a map and or atlas printed in England in the 1790s, how would the United States be labelled?

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Was there a greater degree of wealth disparity between a typical Roman senator and a typical inhabitant of imperial Rome (circa 266), or a typical member of parliament and a typical inhabitant of Victorian London (circa 1866)?

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When medieval European artists depicted ancient figures from biblical and/or classical times in their art were they aware that putting them in contemporary (for the time) looking dress was entirely inaccurate?

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in the 12th century, would the king of England have done any thing particularly out of the ordinary on Christmas day?

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When the Anglo-Saxons Kings were first converting to Christianity were most of the peasants still pagan for a while after, or had they already mostly converted?

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did the Mayans have Chocolate in 500BC?

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There's an episode of Rome where a character manages to over power the gladiators after being condemned to die in the arena. Did anything like that ever happen in real life? Would you still get excuted regardless?

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In the 1962 would the Soviet space program & NASA have still been using technology than ran on vacuum tubes instead of transistors?

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suppose you asked an educated English aristocrat in 1878, what they thought and/or wanted to happen to India and it's people in the future (like centuries in the future). what do you think they would say?	34	AskHistorians
in HBO Rome when Lucius Vorenus gets back to Rome he finds out that the paymasters have cut his family off, claiming he was dead, he says "I'll see to it". was this common in reality? if this really happened to you did you have an legal recourse?	34	AskHistorians
Suppose I got either a map and or atlas printed in England in the 1790s, how would the United States be labelled?	34	AskHistorians
Was there a greater degree of wealth disparity between a typical Roman senator and a typical inhabitant of imperial Rome (circa 266), or a typical member of parliament and a typical inhabitant of Victorian London (circa 1866)?	34	AskHistorians
When medieval European artists depicted ancient figures from biblical and/or classical times in their art were they aware that putting them in contemporary (for the time) looking dress was entirely inaccurate?	34	AskHistorians
in the 12th century, would the king of England have done any thing particularly out of the ordinary on Christmas day?	34	AskHistorians
When the Anglo-Saxons Kings were first converting to Christianity were most of the peasants still pagan for a while after, or had they already mostly converted?	34	AskHistorians
did the Mayans have Chocolate in 500BC?	34	AskHistorians
There's an episode of Rome where a character manages to over power the gladiators after being condemned to die in the arena. Did anything like that ever happen in real life? Would you still get excuted regardless?	33	AskHistorians
In the 1962 would the Soviet space program & NASA have still been using technology than ran on vacuum tubes instead of transistors?	33	AskHistorians