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world history facts 1 5m ratings 277k ratings see that s what the app is perfect for sounds perfect wahhhh i don t wanna world history facts facts and artifacts from world history pretty much every day check out my longer writing here i m on mastodon too i would be forever grateful if you bought me a beverage posts likes ask archive m sure you learned about carthage in school and i d bet that what you learned about it was that hannibal took some elephants over the alps gave the romans a bad scare and served as a worthy foe against which the romans could test their mettle then the romans destroyed carthage but carthage was much more than a foil for the romans it was a fascinating civilization but thanks to the roman destruction we can only get glimpses of their gods their writing and their culture much more about what we know and don t know about carthage here glimpses of carthage what can we know about one of the great ancient civilizations worldhistory substack com history ancient art 270 notes jun 14th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink i know a lot of people who have invested heavily in expensive gear so that they can consume their morning coffee the right way this isn t a new phenomenon for hundreds of years people have gone to great lengths to enjoy their stimulants properly there were elaborate tea chests lockable because the tea inside was so valuable tea caddies sugar tongs and snuffboxes much more here the right way to consume your stimulants early modern style worldhistory substack com history tea coffee food 196 notes may 31st 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink my favorite artifact from this week s post on the history of chocolate a mayan mug with the glyphs on a diagonal so that they d be horizontal when the drinker tilted the cup some pre columbian chocolate vessels were elaborate and others simpler how chocolate became a stimulant that made the modern world chocolate a stimulant that made the modern world there is nothing comparable in the world worldhistory substack com history food chocolate 174 notes may 10th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink before the 1400s as far as we can tell no one on earth had ever had a cup of coffee now people drink nearly a trillion cups a year how did coffee become a global commodity why did some people think it was a harmless and healing liquor while others thought it was a bitter invention of satan and why did frederick the great deploy a legion of coffee sniffers all this and more in this week s newsletter coffee a stimulant that made the modern world harmless and healing liquor or bitter invention of satan worldhistory substack com history coffee food 75 notes may 3rd 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink was tobacco a miracle drug capable of marvellous workes or a filthie noveltie this intoxicant and the way one ingested it by smoking rather than drinking captivated europeans they saw it and its association with native american cultures as tantalizingly exotic the drug became an important engine of conviviality and contemplation this week how tobacco changed the world tobacco a stimulant that made the modern world tobacco is like love open substack com history smoking art 48 notes apr 26th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink at first in europe sugar was a rare delicacy and display of wealth rich people would display elaborate sugar sculptures on their tables then plantation slavery made sugar common and cheap sugar became an affordable stimulant albeit one with very questionable ethics this week a look at sugar s role as one of the stimulants that made the modern world sugar a stimulant that made the modern world chasing that sugar high worldhistory substack com history sugar food 61 notes apr 19th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink the energy that made the modern world didn t come out of nowhere a new global trade in stimulants gave workers the energy to toil in the factories and thinkers the fuel to invent a new world first in the series tea which sparked new ideas about mindfulness and civility as well as war and espionage tea a stimulant that made the modern world the best of herbs worldhistory substack com history tea art 61 notes apr 12th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink the guillotine was supposed to be a symbol of the enlightened nature of the french revolution it was quick efficient and supposedly painless a triumph of rationality but it also became a symbol of the limits of that rationality the people who ran france had evolved beyond medieval style torture in the name of humanism but they didn t think to discard the death penalty altogether the guillotine soon became a symbol not of reason but of chaos and disorder yep i wrote this week about the history of the guillotine in art and culture how a machine became a metaphor the guillotine in history and culture worldhistory substack com history art france 132 notes apr 5th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink france s first estate the clergy that ran the catholic church was an important respected part of society until the revolution cast them as oppressors suddenly the clergy was an enemy of the people violence was encouraged against them the new government tried to replace them with a cult of reason or vague faith in a supreme being what happened when the french revolution attacked one of the central pillars of traditional society check it out what is the first estate how the french revolution went to war with the church worldhistory substack com how france tried to replace god what is the first estate part 2 worldhistory substack com history france religion 63 notes mar 29th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink who decided napoleon was short one candidate was james gillray who helped to pioneer the political cartoon and helped british people visualize the tumult that was happening across the channel his early enthusiasm for the french revolution soured as the revolutionaries turned on the royal family and sowed chaos when napoleon took over gillray didn t like him either considering the new emperor to be a gauche pretender gillray soon found a line of attack napoleon became little boney a small insecure hyperactive little pest how napoleon became short james gillray s vision of the french revolution worldhistory substack com history france cartoon art 57 notes mar 15th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink recently liked upennmanuscripts cuties in codices cuties in codices the 10 000 martyrs of mount ararat miniature from an illustrated german prayerbook waldburg gebetbuch upper swabia 1476 source stuttgart landesbibl cod brev 12 fol 39v 1 020 notes open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink next
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