history fucked me up
oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.
Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.
Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.
When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
First steam engine was the aeolipile described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt.
Buddhism is 500 years older than Christianity, and Hinduism is 1500 years older than Buddhism.
The Basques were mounting full whaling expeditions from Newfoundland, the called Terranova or Grandbaya, in 1530.
And Thomas Edison was a dick just a reminder.