World History in Figures
World History in Figures What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Where did scientific writing first emerge? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? We are used to thinking…
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World History in Figures
What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Where did scientific writing first emerge? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium?
We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies.
Radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer draw on their own Seshat project - a staggeringly ambitious log of demographic and econometric information for every society that has ever existed - to find the large-scale patterns in Figuring Out the Past. Join them now for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past.