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At what point did Europeans realize that the New World wasn't India/Asia?

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Various stories, myths, and epics from the classical/ancient Mediterranean and Near East detail individuals or small groups of people founding cities. How easy was it to actually do this? What was the process?

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In the Iliad, Homer talks of the Achaeans and their war against the Trojans. Did Classical-era Dorians, Ionians, and other Greeks have a special reverence for the contemporary Achaeans as a result?

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Do the participants in the Aterian tool industry in Northern Africa represent the first modern humans to leave Africa?

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Why Didn't Alexander III (The Great) Expand West?

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Was the Divine Comedy intended to be a sort of sequel to Vergil's Aeneid?

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In the time before the Roman Empire and the Punic Wars, how was Rome viewed by nearby city-states, such as Naples, Athens, and Sparta?

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Did ancient historians ever make a connection between Homeric Troy and Bronze Age/Iron Age Anatolian peoples (Luwians, Hittites, etc)?

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History Major?

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What caused names to loose their original meaning and become little more than names?

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At what point did Europeans realize that the New World wasn't India/Asia?	7
Various stories, myths, and epics from the classical/ancient Mediterranean and Near East detail individuals or small groups of people founding cities. How easy was it to actually do this? What was the process?	6
In the Iliad, Homer talks of the Achaeans and their war against the Trojans. Did Classical-era Dorians, Ionians, and other Greeks have a special reverence for the contemporary Achaeans as a result?	5
Do the participants in the Aterian tool industry in Northern Africa represent the first modern humans to leave Africa?	5
Why Didn't Alexander III (The Great) Expand West?	4
Was the Divine Comedy intended to be a sort of sequel to Vergil's Aeneid?	4
In the time before the Roman Empire and the Punic Wars, how was Rome viewed by nearby city-states, such as Naples, Athens, and Sparta?	4
Did ancient historians ever make a connection between Homeric Troy and Bronze Age/Iron Age Anatolian peoples (Luwians, Hittites, etc)?	4
History Major?	3
What caused names to loose their original meaning and become little more than names?	3