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When did it stop being the norm for people in the city of Rome to live in overcrowded apartment blocks (Insula)?

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Suppose you're living in the late Roman Empire (276 to 476) and you're putting on a street play about Spartacus. Would it be most politic to make Spartacus or Crassus the protagonist?

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was it bad manners to turn down an invitation to watch games in the Colosseum in roman times?

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How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?

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In 458 Majorian gathered an army of foreign mercenaries to fight the Vandals. How would the comand structure in such an army like that work?

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how many people had to be in agreement before the soviet union could lunch it's nukes?

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How was the Roman Empire at its height different from the Roman Empire of just before the dark ages?

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I once read a time travel story partly set in 1250 BC Africa. There’s a bit in it where a man from Gambia encounters some Cape San, he concludes they're primitive because they don't have any domestic plants or animals. Would people in West Africa have had domestic plants or animals that far back?

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was Aristotle a more widely read and influential philosopher in the time of the roman empire, or the high middle ages?

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you know how in films set in the middle ages they'll put actors in costumes with a lot of form fitting leather parts if they want them to look cool and bad-ass. In Britain 950 years ago was is particularly normal to make clothes out of leather?

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When did it stop being the norm for people in the city of Rome to live in overcrowded apartment blocks (Insula)?	12	AskHistorians
Suppose you're living in the late Roman Empire (276 to 476) and you're putting on a street play about Spartacus. Would it be most politic to make Spartacus or Crassus the protagonist?	11	AskHistorians
was it bad manners to turn down an invitation to watch games in the Colosseum in roman times?	11	AskHistorians
How many people actually lived in the city of Rome when the western empire fell in 476?	11	AskHistorians
In 458 Majorian gathered an army of foreign mercenaries to fight the Vandals. How would the comand structure in such an army like that work?	11	AskHistorians
how many people had to be in agreement before the soviet union could lunch it's nukes?	11	AskHistorians
How was the Roman Empire at its height different from the Roman Empire of just before the dark ages?	11	AskHistorians
I once read a time travel story partly set in 1250 BC Africa. There’s a bit in it where a man from Gambia encounters some Cape San, he concludes they're primitive because they don't have any domestic plants or animals. Would people in West Africa have had domestic plants or animals that far back?	11	AskHistorians
was Aristotle a more widely read and influential philosopher in the time of the roman empire, or the high middle ages?	11	AskHistorians
you know how in films set in the middle ages they'll put actors in costumes with a lot of form fitting leather parts if they want them to look cool and bad-ass. In Britain 950 years ago was is particularly normal to make clothes out of leather?	11	AskHistorians