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which had a more literate population, AD444 Rome or AD1444 Florence?

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by the time Oliver Cromwell died how high was his public support? and how does it compare to his popularity immediately after the civil war?

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If asked in 1814 would a Japanese aristocrat have said the Chinese were more civilised (or less barbaric?) than the Dutch?

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did the Anglo-Saxons rape the enemy's women in war?

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wikipedia says the saxons probably introduced the open field system to Britain. how did the Celts divide up land?

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during the early classical age (IE before Rome conquered Greece) would many/any of the philosophical and scientific works written in Greece have been copied distributed to greek colonies across the Mediterranean?

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at the time (the late 1940s) was it considered particularly daring/unusual for a self proclaimed socialist like Gorge Orwell to denounce the USSR so overtly (without abandoning socialism)?

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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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In Japan in the late 19th century was their much of a significant generational gap between people who had and had not been past childhood when the Meiji Restoration started?

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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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which had a more literate population, AD444 Rome or AD1444 Florence?	23	AskHistorians
by the time Oliver Cromwell died how high was his public support? and how does it compare to his popularity immediately after the civil war?	23	AskHistorians
If asked in 1814 would a Japanese aristocrat have said the Chinese were more civilised (or less barbaric?) than the Dutch?	23	AskHistorians
did the Anglo-Saxons rape the enemy's women in war?	23	AskHistorians
wikipedia says the saxons probably introduced the open field system to Britain. how did the Celts divide up land?	23	AskHistorians
during the early classical age (IE before Rome conquered Greece) would many/any of the philosophical and scientific works written in Greece have been copied distributed to greek colonies across the Mediterranean?	23	AskHistorians
at the time (the late 1940s) was it considered particularly daring/unusual for a self proclaimed socialist like Gorge Orwell to denounce the USSR so overtly (without abandoning socialism)?	23	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
In Japan in the late 19th century was their much of a significant generational gap between people who had and had not been past childhood when the Meiji Restoration started?	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