27 What was the gender population imbalance like in the Roman Empire after losing tens or tens of thousands of men in various battles/wars along the course of the Empire's existence?

28 Was ancient Persia as terrifying as the 300 movie?

29 If the Roman army was so skilled and almost unbeatable in battle, how did the Roman Empire ever fall?

30 Was Alexander the Great a good lone fighter?

31 What was day-to-day life in Ancient Rome like?

32 Why didn't Rome invade the African interior?

33 How did Cleopatra speak Arabic if the language didn't exist until the common era?

34 Was medieval Europe more advanced than the Roman Empire?

35 Why did they break the legs of those crucified?

36 Did the ancient Romans have a “Mediterranean” appearance?

37 What is the weirdest figure in ancient Roman history?

38 Why did ancient armies like the Roman and Greek rely on javelins and hand-to-hand combat, instead of using archery?

39 If a Roman army from the height of the Roman Empire was to meet an army led by Alexander the Great, who would win?

40 What happened to Carthage after being defeated by Rome?

41 Why are Assyrians considered brutal and compared with the Mongols? What did they do?

42 A Spartan soldier returns home after a victorious battle, but he lost his shield in the fighting and chaos. So he's returning neither "with it" nor "on it". How big a deal really is it that he's returning without his shield?

43 Why wasn't Gaul the breadbasket of Rome instead of Egypt? Gaul was mostly made of vast fertile plains while Egypt only had fertile land near the Nile, mostly being desert.

44 During the Roman Republic/Empire times, how hard would it have been to go off somewhere remote and build a life for yourself? Would it be easy to just go build a farm on some vacant land?

45 What did the Romans think about Egypt?

46 How did they make iron in the Iron Age?

47 After the Roman empire collapsed, did Rome become some sort of a ghost city? What was daily life like for those left behind?

48 How were Roman soldiers able to maintain discipline and order despite being deployed in far-flung corners of the empire?

49 What everyday technologies did ordinary people lose access to after the fall of the Western Roman Empire?

50 What did native Europeans look like before the Aryan people conquered?

51 Did the Romans ever outlaw or forbid citizens to own certain weapons? Like some countries now have Guns.

52 What were the worst jobs for poor Romans in Ancient Rome?

53 What was the strangest battle in Roman history?

54 Why didn't the Greeks resist the Romans with the same vigor they resisted the Persians?

55 Why did Rome have so many bad emperors?

56 Were the Romans of the Roman Empire ever curious as to what lay on the other side of the Atlantic? Or did they not care too much for exploring?

57 What civilizations were around 60,000 to 100,000 years ago?

58 Was there a definitive end to the gladiator games?

59 I saw some pictures on a website that showed the Stonehenge stones being constructed in 1950, and thus are not thousands of years old, could this be true?

60 What was on the block at the top of the pyramid?

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