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anotherjadedwriter:

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

“first few years” is an understatement. Oxford Uni was operating since at least 1096 while modern calculus wasn’t formed until the 1630’s

Part of the basis of modern calculus was actually made in Oxford Uni

fuck calculus

There were mobile coffee carts in Istanbul by 1582, the same year newspapers began being sold in China, and at least 3 years before William Shakespeare began writing.