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46 Questions

Did Saladin speak any European languages?

Was there a European response to the trail of tears?

Where were ancient Romans supposed to dispose of their waste and garbage?

What was the Victorian opinion of the American Revolution?

How profitable was India for the British Empire in the 1800s?

Why wasn't there more use of wind power in antiquity?

Why was there little nonwhite migration to Europe in the 19th century?

In Georgian England, what was a water-party?

What are the dates of these panoramas of Paris?

What kind of education would a 12th/13th century English knight get?

To what extent does the dictionary of Samuel Johnson represent English as it was spoken in his day?

What was the legal process of raising a legion in late Republican Rome?

Was Robespierre in the pay of the British?

Was bronze ever used for chainmail?

Jerusalem 1187: How did ethnicity impact Saladin's army?

Was Marc Antony with Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon?

When did western doctors first start predicting prenatal diseases and disabilities?

During the French Revolution, how did the French address non-citizens?

Are there examples of stone age cultures living in proximity close to iron age cultures without adapting to metal use?

What jobs were available for migrants from the country to Rome?

In historical slave societies, what jobs were left over for poor free laborers?

Did the food economy of the late Roman republic rely on foreign imports, or was it more localized?

What were the major imports and exports of Germany and France from 1850-1915?

Did the medieval Europe have an active “lowbrow” culture?

Historiography and the uses of history in the Second French Empire?

Jerusalem 1187: How would Saladin's army have laid siege to the walls?

How accurate is the fatalistic samurai culture in James Clavell's novel Shogun?

How were political factions in the late Roman republic different from political parties today?

How did Victorian British conservatives resolve the tension between valuing tradition and spreading empire?

When did the British gentry stop wearing wigs?