Where we look back at the classics that still define the present.
You’ve heard the word. Knights.Red crosses.“Deus vult.”Maybe a meme. Maybe a history class blur. But what were the Crusades actually? Short answer:They were a series of wars started by Western European Christians in the Middle Ages, mostly aimed at taking or defending land in the Middle East — especially Jerusalem. Longer answer? It’s complicated. But…
If you’ve ever learned the planets in school, you probably did it without a second thought: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (Poor Pluto) Clean. Familiar. Almost… inevitable. But that inevitability is an illusion. Those names are the result of cultural inheritance, translation choices, and the quiet dominance of Roman scholarship…
