We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
Jared DiamondAfrican cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
Jared DiamondThe past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
Jared DiamondWhy is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?
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