Show notes
It's time for one last mailbag! I cover everything from which historical figure would be the best Poster on social media to how ancient authors collected their letters for publication to how making Tides has shaped my interests in the past. Patrick launched a brand-new history show! It’s called Past Lives, and every episode explores the life of a real person who lived in the past.
Highlighted moments
Columbus was sent back to Spain in chains. He was stripped of most of his honors and wealth that he'd accumulated by the Spanish crown, not because they were being unfair to him, but because he had done things that they explicitly didn't like.
“What bows and arrows are really, really useful for is interpersonal violence, violence between human beings. And so I don't think it's a coincidence that bows and arrows really pick up in use as population densities increase”
“The Romans literally did some climate change because they were mining so hard.”
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