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Did the Romans have any racial prejudices that they held, particularly when they conquered other lands with people of darker skin tones? Did this factor into who was or wasn't sold into slavery?

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How did people make plans with each other before clocks? Like how could Roman senators or Medieval European nobles meet together without having a set, standard way of checking the time?

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Who is the first known person to have started the British monarchy? What is just some family over a thousand years ago that just continued to gain more power and more land?

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Did the Romans have any racial prejudices that they held, particularly when they conquered other lands with people of darker skin tones? Did this factor into who was or wasn't sold into slavery?	296
How did people make plans with each other before clocks? Like how could Roman senators or Medieval European nobles meet together without having a set, standard way of checking the time?	19
Who is the first known person to have started the British monarchy? What is just some family over a thousand years ago that just continued to gain more power and more land?	1