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in the American "Wild West" how expensive and scarce is the ammunition there, also could an average person afford enough bullets just for the purpose of practicing how to shoot?	2988
It's said that majority young men in village/towns had been enlisted/drafted to the British Army during WW1. What effects did village/towns had if majority of young men in the same battalion from the same village were killed, what happens to the village/town?	71
In Medieval Fantasies, Blacksmiths are depicted that they can forge there own metal, tools, weapons and armor by one single person or sometimes and helper. Is it possible for a single smith to make an armor or sword entirely by themselves?	53
Did Lawyers from the Middle Ages existed in places such as England, France and HRE?	51
Other than the Roman Senate, Did the Byzantines/Eastern Roman Empire in the medieval era have any that functioned as a legislative body like the English with their Parliament or the HRE with their Imperial Diet?	25
Were the New Model Army of England during Cromwell's time meritocratic or at least the officers less aristocrat-centric compared to the later militaries of England/UK?	24
I'm in a Press Gang looking for able men for the Royal Navy, what man should i be looking for to press into the Royal Navy?	18
Did the native americans in central and south america develop any horse nomad culture years after the Spanish/Portugal Arrival into the New world?	17
What was Westpoint like and there curriculum during the times when most American Civil War Generals attended there?	15
How many squires could a Knight have in western/central europe in the 11th-13th century?	14

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