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In 97 CE, the Chinese military ambassador Gan Ying was sent on a mission to Rome, but stopped at an ocean west of Parthia after some sailors told him the ocean was too big to cross. How would he have communicated with these sailors without a common language or interpreter?

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I've heard from several unsubstantiated sources that until the 1960s, it was believed that Mars harbored some form of life. Was this the actual scientific consensus? How did we know so little about the planet so late into the 20th Century?

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During the Migration Period, tribes moved extensively around Europe and settled in very different places. Would the life of an average Visigoth in Dacia in 376 be noticeably different to that of a Visigoth in Gaul in 418?

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How early did people realize language changes over time?

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What was going on in Europe during the classical Mayan era?

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Why were there so many Kolechian attacks on Arstotzka (particularly the East Grestin) border in December 1983?

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It’s 1536, I live in the North of England, and I’ve just written a novel. How do I get this printed, copied, and distributed/sold around the country?

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If we went back to 1347 and showed a random person from somewhere in Europe a modern map of the world, would they know what they were looking at?

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Not sure if this is the right Subreddit, but why are the words for Germany different in so many languages?

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How did regimes such as those of East Germany, North Korea, etc. spin the fact that people were defecting from them, but not to them?

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In 97 CE, the Chinese military ambassador Gan Ying was sent on a mission to Rome, but stopped at an ocean west of Parthia after some sailors told him the ocean was too big to cross. How would he have communicated with these sailors without a common language or interpreter?	763
I've heard from several unsubstantiated sources that until the 1960s, it was believed that Mars harbored some form of life. Was this the actual scientific consensus? How did we know so little about the planet so late into the 20th Century?	80
During the Migration Period, tribes moved extensively around Europe and settled in very different places. Would the life of an average Visigoth in Dacia in 376 be noticeably different to that of a Visigoth in Gaul in 418?	28
How early did people realize language changes over time?	19
What was going on in Europe during the classical Mayan era?	9
Why were there so many Kolechian attacks on Arstotzka (particularly the East Grestin) border in December 1983?	8
It’s 1536, I live in the North of England, and I’ve just written a novel. How do I get this printed, copied, and distributed/sold around the country?	7
If we went back to 1347 and showed a random person from somewhere in Europe a modern map of the world, would they know what they were looking at?	5
Not sure if this is the right Subreddit, but why are the words for Germany different in so many languages?	4
How did regimes such as those of East Germany, North Korea, etc. spin the fact that people were defecting from them, but not to them?	3