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Historical Artifacts
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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!
Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.
Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world
Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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Not sure about Japan or, for that matter, China outside of a narrow period of the 19th century, but I do know that opium smoking was extremely widespread in the 19th century after China was flooded by cheap British opium, to the point where it created a massive economic, public health, and manpower crisis from the widespread availability and low cost of opium. I believe in prior eras it was a known vice, but one generally restricted to wealthier individuals rather than the 'opium dens' we think of.
I might be wrong about that, don't quote me or anything.
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