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what was the first state in history to create a constitution?

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In real life would it have been particularly unusual for a normal labourer in a late 19th century frontier town, to own a hand gun?

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excluding Russia why didn’t any east Asian powers try to claim land in the new world in the 16th or 17th centuries?

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I once read that a large number of North Korean defectors have untreated gynecological infections because of the lack of good health care, sex ed and generally poor conditions there. Did the same problem exist in the west (Europe, north America) 300 years ago back when we had the same lacks?

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suppose you're a woman in AD 1000 and you're giving birth. is your best chance of avoiding complications (for both mother and child) in calling or not calling a Midwife? how much (if at all) does depend where on Earth you live?

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suppose you're a Muslim living in India or Sri lanka in AD1116, how likely are you to actually manage to make the Pilgrimage to Mecca at some point in your life?

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is it possible for Augustus to have living decedents?

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who would have more personal freedom of movement, a free Zoroastrian woman in an AD303 Sasanian city, or a free Muslim woman in an AD808 Abbasid Caliphate city?

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Suppose I'm a Byzantine citizen living in Constantinople in 1116. Am I aware the Julius Caesar's rebellion over a 1000 years earlier in the penultimate reason I'm ruled by an emperor instead of a senate?

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Was there any movement back and forth across the Bering Strait after the end of the ice age and before 1492?

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what was the first state in history to create a constitution?	27	AskHistorians
In real life would it have been particularly unusual for a normal labourer in a late 19th century frontier town, to own a hand gun?	27	AskHistorians
excluding Russia why didn’t any east Asian powers try to claim land in the new world in the 16th or 17th centuries?	27	AskHistorians
I once read that a large number of North Korean defectors have untreated gynecological infections because of the lack of good health care, sex ed and generally poor conditions there. Did the same problem exist in the west (Europe, north America) 300 years ago back when we had the same lacks?	27	AskHistorians
suppose you're a woman in AD 1000 and you're giving birth. is your best chance of avoiding complications (for both mother and child) in calling or not calling a Midwife? how much (if at all) does depend where on Earth you live?	27	AskHistorians
suppose you're a Muslim living in India or Sri lanka in AD1116, how likely are you to actually manage to make the Pilgrimage to Mecca at some point in your life?	27	AskHistorians
is it possible for Augustus to have living decedents?	27	AskHistorians
who would have more personal freedom of movement, a free Zoroastrian woman in an AD303 Sasanian city, or a free Muslim woman in an AD808 Abbasid Caliphate city?	27	AskHistorians
Suppose I'm a Byzantine citizen living in Constantinople in 1116. Am I aware the Julius Caesar's rebellion over a 1000 years earlier in the penultimate reason I'm ruled by an emperor instead of a senate?	27	AskHistorians
Was there any movement back and forth across the Bering Strait after the end of the ice age and before 1492?	27	AskHistorians