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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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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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there's a bit in an episode of Boardwalk Empire where a guy tells an anecdote that starts with him watching a Mickey Mouse cartoon at the movies. in 1931 was Mickey Mouse popular enough yet that you could just expect anyone you spoke to know who he was?
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Today a lot of people see being reliant on state welfare as something shameful. Did many/any ancient Romans view being reliant grain dole (IE free grain supplied to poor Romans) the same way
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did the level of technology in the urbanised parts of America change much between the age of the Olmecs and the arrival of Columbus?
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I've been told (by Crash Course History) that WW2 Japanese soldiers were expected to scavenge or steal food from occupied territory instead of being sent rations from home. Does that mean men in the Imperial Navy ate better? if "yes" did that effect what service Japanese people tried to enter?
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Suppose you're a merchant (from elsewhere in England) staying in London in 1142. what sort of food and accommodation would you expect to be able to get well staying there?
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"they make a desolation and call it peace" why did Tacitus give that line to the Caledonian chief in his "history"? Why did he write a tirade against his own sociaty?
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Suppose you're walking along the docks of a Meditarnian city (presumably Egyptian or Phoenicia) in 1117BC. Would you expect to see many/any foreign trader ships, or had the Greek dark age led to the end of international trade by then?
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