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When the classical Greeks and Romans traded with northern Europe (the parts of northern Europe they hadn't have direct political control over yet), did they physically go there or work through proxies?

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suppose you visited ireland in AD35 and 1965BCE. aside from the presence and absence of iron, what differences (if any) would you see?

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In Game of thrones when the dothraki are between raids they mainly subsist off horse meat. Is there any evidence of either the Huns or the Mongols (who between them inspired the dothraki) ever eating horse meat in large quantities?

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When people saw Shakespeare's Roman plays at the globe would they have understood that the English dialog was intended as a translation rather than how Romans actually spoke?

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In one of the Downton Abbey Christmas episodes the "up stairs" characters make reference to a seasonal tradition where they reverse roles and sever the servants. Is that based on anything that actually existed?

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In the novel I'm reading one of the characters belongs to family that started out as Gauls (given equestrian status by Caesar), but by the time of the story (259) they've been totally assimilated into the roman nobility. IRL were there many “barbarian” families that managed to make that transition?

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would the scientific method have been know of and understood by the educated of China and Japan 300 years ago?

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I was reading a Time travel story that had a description of a particularly brutal hittite battle tactic, it said they'd have cauldrons of boiling cooking oil on the city wall, when people attacked they'd pour it out then throw a torch down, sort of poor man's napalm. did they really do that?

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was toy maker a real profession that was common in pre-industrial Europe or is it just an invention of fairy-tale fiction?

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I was just listening to the NPR politics podcast in which they said presidents don't give a state of the union their first year in office. Did that apply to Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson or Calvin Coolidge (IE presidents that inherited the job mid term)?

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When the classical Greeks and Romans traded with northern Europe (the parts of northern Europe they hadn't have direct political control over yet), did they physically go there or work through proxies?	24	AskHistorians
suppose you visited ireland in AD35 and 1965BCE. aside from the presence and absence of iron, what differences (if any) would you see?	24	AskHistorians
In Game of thrones when the dothraki are between raids they mainly subsist off horse meat. Is there any evidence of either the Huns or the Mongols (who between them inspired the dothraki) ever eating horse meat in large quantities?	24	AskHistorians
When people saw Shakespeare's Roman plays at the globe would they have understood that the English dialog was intended as a translation rather than how Romans actually spoke?	24	AskHistorians
In one of the Downton Abbey Christmas episodes the "up stairs" characters make reference to a seasonal tradition where they reverse roles and sever the servants. Is that based on anything that actually existed?	24	AskHistorians
In the novel I'm reading one of the characters belongs to family that started out as Gauls (given equestrian status by Caesar), but by the time of the story (259) they've been totally assimilated into the roman nobility. IRL were there many “barbarian” families that managed to make that transition?	24	AskHistorians
would the scientific method have been know of and understood by the educated of China and Japan 300 years ago?	24	AskHistorians
I was reading a Time travel story that had a description of a particularly brutal hittite battle tactic, it said they'd have cauldrons of boiling cooking oil on the city wall, when people attacked they'd pour it out then throw a torch down, sort of poor man's napalm. did they really do that?	23	AskHistorians
was toy maker a real profession that was common in pre-industrial Europe or is it just an invention of fairy-tale fiction?	23	AskHistorians
I was just listening to the NPR politics podcast in which they said presidents don't give a state of the union their first year in office. Did that apply to Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson or Calvin Coolidge (IE presidents that inherited the job mid term)?	23	AskHistorians