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Suppose you were born working class in England 160 years ago, but you somehow managed to get into a grammar school then went to Oxbridge. If you went into politics would your "humble birth" be something people could use against you in the press?

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in HBO Rome Lucius Vorenus takes over something called the aventine collegium then all the gangs in the City have to treat him as their leader. what is the aventine collegium?

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Suppose you are a Visigothic in AD 398. What would it be like to live in amongst a wandering group of people who have no fixed territory? Where do you get food and shelter from one day to next?

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170 years ago what proportion of white abolitionists in the US would have said that they believed black and white people where inherently equal, rather than just that slavery in particular was wrong?

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Suppose you asked a typical American in 1944 what they think will happen to Japan after the war if/when the U.S. win, what would they likely say? What was the popular press telling people would happen to the Japanese once/if they lost the war?

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if the Vikings visited North America why weren't there any old world animals present there before other Europeans got there centuries later?

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in 10th century Europe did specialist craftsmen and artisans (blacksmiths, carpenters, sculptors, etcetera...) have more freedom than serfs?

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how much of what we know about classical times is the product of rediscovery and how much has been consistently known by someone throughout history?

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was Sicily at all urbanized before the Greeks took it over?

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before the Meiji restoration did the Japanese have any laws governing hunting in Japan's very large wilderness?

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Suppose you were born working class in England 160 years ago, but you somehow managed to get into a grammar school then went to Oxbridge. If you went into politics would your "humble birth" be something people could use against you in the press?	33	AskHistorians
in HBO Rome Lucius Vorenus takes over something called the aventine collegium then all the gangs in the City have to treat him as their leader. what is the aventine collegium?	33	AskHistorians
Suppose you are a Visigothic in AD 398. What would it be like to live in amongst a wandering group of people who have no fixed territory? Where do you get food and shelter from one day to next?	32	AskHistorians
170 years ago what proportion of white abolitionists in the US would have said that they believed black and white people where inherently equal, rather than just that slavery in particular was wrong?	32	AskHistorians
Suppose you asked a typical American in 1944 what they think will happen to Japan after the war if/when the U.S. win, what would they likely say? What was the popular press telling people would happen to the Japanese once/if they lost the war?	32	AskHistorians
if the Vikings visited North America why weren't there any old world animals present there before other Europeans got there centuries later?	32	AskHistorians
in 10th century Europe did specialist craftsmen and artisans (blacksmiths, carpenters, sculptors, etcetera...) have more freedom than serfs?	32	AskHistorians
how much of what we know about classical times is the product of rediscovery and how much has been consistently known by someone throughout history?	32	AskHistorians
was Sicily at all urbanized before the Greeks took it over?	32	AskHistorians
before the Meiji restoration did the Japanese have any laws governing hunting in Japan's very large wilderness?	32	AskHistorians