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History & Culture
The Roman Empire did not fall in 476 CE. Only the western half did. The eastern half ruled from Constantinople for another thousand years, outlasting the Western collapse by longer than the entire United States has existed. The empire we forgot was the more durable one.
17 April 2026
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In 1450, there were roughly 30,000 books in all of Europe. By 1500, there were 12 million. What happened in between reshaped religion, science, politics, and the human relationship with knowledge itself.
History & CultureMoney is the most successful shared fiction in human history. Understanding where it came from — and what it actually is — tells you more about human society than almost any other subject.
History & CultureFor three centuries, historians blamed barbarians, Christianity, and moral decay. Modern scholarship tells a far more interesting story — one about climate, disease, complexity, and a crisis that began long before anyone noticed.
History & CultureThe Silk Road was not a single road. It was a network of routes spanning 4,000 miles that transmitted goods, religions, plagues, and ideas for over a millennium. Its legacy runs through every aspect of modernity.