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Did Romans recognize different varietals of wine? What were some of the fancier kinds? And what wine today would be most approximate?
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When did the practice of 'paying respect' to other nations' tragedies begin? For instance, would Palmyra have sent Rome well-wishes and aid after the eruption of Vesuvius or on the anniversaries thereafter?
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What's the deal with Macedon? Under the Byzantines, 'Macedon' was in Turkey, and shared no land with either the Greek region nor the current Republic. And why is the Republic named Macedon when it has only a little bit of the former Greek/Roman region?
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How did it come to be that there are more surnames in the northeast of Italy/the Veneto that end in consonants?
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Why were the Vikings who settled in Dublin/Ireland comparatively peaceful to their counterparts elsewhere?
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I've read that tax laws on trade enacted by Diocletian made some large landholders turn away from trade/move more towards production on their own lands; which in turn gave rise to the beginnings of Duchies after the fall of the Western Empire. To what extent is this true, how did duchies form?
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In Mark Kurlansky's 'Salt', he mentions that in 200BC Han China, they were piping up natural gas to run saltworks. Were there any other instance of piping fuels in the world until the Oil age?
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What are some good books on the development of social structures (e.g. Counties, Duchies, etc) post-Classical era?
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