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What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. 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.
Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship of world history and economics, Turchin and Hoyer reveal the progress of civilization by numbers. Building on the Pocket World in Figures series'' trademark charts and tables, Figuring Out the Past uses charts, maps, and other graphics to literally show the rise a
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?We are used to thinking ab
DE LA COFONDATORUL CLIODINAMICII, ȘTIINȚA INTERDISCIPLINARĂ REVOLUȚIONARĂ A ISTORIEI, O EXPLICAȚIE DE ANSAMBLU A TRAIECTORIEI OMENIRII În 2010, când revista Nature le-a cerut oamenilor de știință importanți să ofere o previziune pentru următorii zece ani, Turchin a afirmat că America se află într-o
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