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What happened to you after the Russian Revolution if you weren't royalty but did have a lot of money, land & your own business?
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It’s s AD241, who has a more calorie rich diet, A typical Italian craftsman (A blacksmith say) in the city of Rome, or a typical British/Celtic Craftsman (a carpenter say) on the Isle of Man?
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as I understand it Jefferson wanted the USA to cover N America with privately owned subsistence farms, rather than crowded cities (IE like in Britain). Did anyone ever ask him what he thought would happen when all the fertile land on the continent is taken, but the population keeps growing?
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suppose I'm a roman emperor on campaign in Northern europe. what sort of food (in terms of variety) am I eating?
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in the mid 350s future Emperor Julian (the Apostate) traveled to Athens to study philosophy. At that time would the dominant religion in Athens have been Greek polytheism or Christianity?
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Suppose I go into store/shop in New York and buy, say.... a bag of potatoes (or really any common vegetables). What’s the earliest point in history, I wouldn't necessarily be buying local produce?
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was it that knowledge of the Vikings' discovery of America didn’t spread or just that people didn’t realize the land they'd discovered was actually the edge of a giant continent so nobody viewed it as significant? if the former why didn’t it spread?
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Yesterday someone on here told me that in Han era Chinese cities they locked streets so people couldn't go out at night. Is that true? If "yes" did it mean they had less late night crime than other contemporary urban societies?
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