A DEEP DIVE INTO
Lessons of History
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Learn from the past, shape a better future.
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What are the the laws of history
How to understand current events
Identify patterns of human behaviour
Get inspired by great leaders of the past
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We can't understand ourselves without our past
We can't really understand what's going on now without knowing what happened before. It's like building a house – you need a strong foundation. Even scientists need to know about history to make sense of their experiments. They're part of a big story, just like everyone else.
Remember Don Quixote? He is a great example of how books can mess with your head! He reads a bunch of old stories about knights and princesses and starts believing he's one. He dresses up in armour and goes around fighting windmills because he thinks they're giants.It's like his brain got stuck in a book!
“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
VOLTAIRE
History’s Biggest Fraud
- The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.
- Who was responsible? The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes.
- The body of Homo sapiens had not evolved for such tasks. It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets.
- Moreover, the new agricultural tasks demanded so much time that people were forced to settle permanently next to their wheat fields. This completely changed their way of life.
- We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.
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