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Figuring Out the Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History

By Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer
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By Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer
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Discover the world records that define our history and jump headfirst into the past using scientific data that reveals accurate and insightful answers to life’s biggest questions.

What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the plumbing like in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in the Mughal Empire? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ever ritual human sacrifice?

We are used to thinking about history in terms of s...

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