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Suppose you are a working class citizen in AD95 Rome. How often do you go to the public baths and/or change your clothes? Also would both of those things be more less frequent for an individual of equivalent social status in Italy 1000 years later (in the middle age)?
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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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In AD300 would the story of Romulus & Remus have been widely known by the people in the empire who were not of Roman/Italian decent?
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In the 1930s would most people in the western world have understood the concept of what a computer was suppose to be?
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were the Dutch, or atleast their governent, angry with the Americans when they forcible ended their monopoly on trade with Japan?
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Were there many/any active mines (for anything) in Britain between the withdrawal of the Romans and the Industrial Age? If yes how did they get people to work in them?
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90 years ago what proportion of America university students weren't white (IE whatever people at the time would consider "white" to mean)? what proportion (if any?) of Ivy League students weren't white?
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Suppose you visited an Olmec settlement in the Yucatan in 700BC, suppose you visited a Mayan settlement in the Yucatan in AD 1300. Can you think of any technological advancements you'd probably see in the later time compared to the former?
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