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would ptolemaic pharaohs have dressed like greek kings or egyptian pharaohs, to meet foreign dignitaries?
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You know that popular image of southern slave traders whipping blacks until they agreed to answer to their Anglo slave name, did that sort of thing really happen often? Were they really that strict about slave names?
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I just now read on Wikipedia that in the late middle ages (1400 through 1550) most English plays would have dealt with bible stories. Would the people watching those plays have been allowed to shout and jeer like the audiences at Shakespeare's later, secular, plays supposedly did?
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In Boardwalk Empire both Nucky & Jimmy never use corporal punishment on their respective kids. Would that have been really unusual for American fathers in 1920?
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Did Arian Christians believe in the concept of sanctuary? If "yes" would (western) Roman Emperor Majorian have respected it during his 450/60s campaigns, & so not kill/enslave people hiding in churches?
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suppose You're a 13/14 year old girl in a (tradesmen/working class) Muslim family in Edirne (the capital of the Ottoman empire) in 1397. Suppose you sleep with a boy and get pregnant. What will happen to you when your family and/or community find/figure out?
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would insulae (tenement blocks) have been common in Constantinople (circa 600) like they were in ancient Rome?
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why do we call the 1838 mormon war a "war" when it was so small scale and did not involve another nation besides the US?
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