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By inventing ammonia synthesis, Fritz Haber became arguably the single most consequential organism on the planet.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
Anthropologist Henry Dobyns has pointed to the interruption of Indigenous peoples’ trade networks. When colonizing powers seized Indigenous trade routes, the ensuing acute shortages, including food products, weakened populations and forced them into dependency on the colonizers, with European manufactured goods replacing Indigenous ones.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Les perles Aggry furent connues plus tard sous le nom de perles d'esclaves pour le rôle qu'elles jouèrent en alimentant la traite d'Africains vers l'Europe et l'Amérique du Nord. L'effondrement brutal de la valeur d'un médium monétaire est tragique mais au moins il est rapide et ceux qui le détiennent peuvent commencer à commercer et épargner dans
... See moreMarie Oneissi • l'Étalon-Bitcoin
William McNeill reckons the population of the Americas at one hundred million in 1492,
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Jared Diamond, in The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
the exploration of the planets, the billion chemical heaps in Africa that were now not even corpses,
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Don’t you ever stop to question why things are the way they are now? Pick a random time or place on this Earth and plop yourself down into any of its cities as just a normal citizen. Ancient Egypt. Modern Egypt. The Roman Empire. Sparta. Istanbul. Congo, now or then. St. Petersburg. Ancient Beijing. Feudal Japan. Māori New Zealand. There isn’t just
... See moreBryan R Johnson • DON'T DIE
Cahokia supported a population of tens of thousands, larger than that of London during the same period.