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Suppose I am a normal (non enslaved) person in Carthage in 156BC. How worried am I about Rome attacking again and destroying my already reduced civilisation?
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why did New York end up far bigger and (in an economic sense) more important than the US's actual capital city?
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When ancient near Eastern rulers (Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Parthians, etc) took treasure as plunder after a battle did they actually mean to spend it at some later date, or was it just meant as an ostentatious show of wealth and power?
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When the Kingdom of Soissons (basically Roman Gaul) Stoped taking orders from Rome were they aware they probably weren't going to be able to hold out against the Franks indefinitely alone?
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An English teacher once told me that Shakespeare's Prospero only sinks magic books to the bottom of the sea because the Tudor era English would have found the notion of destroying books, sources of wisdom, aberrant. Is that so?
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in the 1560s Hellier de Carteret, a noblemen from Jersey, asked the queen to let him set up a colony on the island of Sark to keep pirates of it. she agreed so long as he took at least 40 families & armed them. would these 40 families have been people who relocated voluntarily?
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At the time King Lear was first preformed would most educated people in England have been aware Lear was likely mythic? It it likely Shakespeare was aware when he wrote it?
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