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Did any pre-Age of Enlightenment governments fund public education or medicine/doctors for ordinary people?

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Were European medieval wild game preserve laws partially due to concern for resource depletion?

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When did the social norm of publicly sharing the contents of private letters fade away? When and how did this practice of reading letters out loud for an audience first arise?

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When the early Church supposedly turned pagan gods into saints, wouldn't pagans have found the newly-made-up stories recasting their gods as humans offensive?

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Before Sulla made himself dictator in 82 BC, the office and its powers had not been used in 120 years. Did most Romans circa 82 BC even initially know what a dictator was?

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Did Ancient Egypt's histories or myths retain any memory of the African Humid Period / "green Sahara," or the refugees of desertification creating Egyptian civilization?

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Why did Rochester, NY never develop a port on Lake Ontario?

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When, and how, did civilization begin to deplore violence against innocent noncombatants?

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Aside from World War I, were there other wars where spontaneous "Christmas truces" occurred among troops?

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What do we know about the Gothic pirates of the Black Sea who attacked the Roman Empire in the 3rd century?

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Did any pre-Age of Enlightenment governments fund public education or medicine/doctors for ordinary people?	3
Were European medieval wild game preserve laws partially due to concern for resource depletion?	3
When did the social norm of publicly sharing the contents of private letters fade away? When and how did this practice of reading letters out loud for an audience first arise?	3
When the early Church supposedly turned pagan gods into saints, wouldn't pagans have found the newly-made-up stories recasting their gods as humans offensive?	3
Before Sulla made himself dictator in 82 BC, the office and its powers had not been used in 120 years. Did most Romans circa 82 BC even initially know what a dictator was?	3
Did Ancient Egypt's histories or myths retain any memory of the African Humid Period / "green Sahara," or the refugees of desertification creating Egyptian civilization?	2
Why did Rochester, NY never develop a port on Lake Ontario?	2
When, and how, did civilization begin to deplore violence against innocent noncombatants?	2
Aside from World War I, were there other wars where spontaneous "Christmas truces" occurred among troops?	2
What do we know about the Gothic pirates of the Black Sea who attacked the Roman Empire in the 3rd century?	2