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How We Got Here

Not a history of everything — a history of the things that still matter. The events, ideas, and accidents that built the world you woke up in this morning.

Start Here — new to the project? Read what this wiki is trying to do and why events are chosen the way they are.

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The Throughlines

History organized by the threads that are still live today, not by century.

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Agriculture and Settlement

From foraging to the first surplus, and why surplus changes everything.

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States and Sovereignty

How territory turned into government, and government turned into borders.

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Trade and Empire

The routes, the companies, and the wars fought to control both.

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Money and Capital

Debt, banking, and the invention of value that doesn't exist yet.

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Industry and Energy

Steam, oil, and the century that rewired daily life.

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Information and Ideas

Printing presses, broadcasts, and networks — how ideas started moving faster than armies.

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• diffhist Science, Technology, and Nature 06:04 −54 Parijat talk contribs
• diffhist Science, Technology, and Nature 06:04 +239 Parijat talk contribs (→Nature)
• diffhist N Weather Systems 05:33 +194 Parijat talk contribs (Created page with "{{LinkEntry|El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)}} {{LinkEntry|Indian Ocean Dipole}} {{LinkEntry|North Atlantic Oscillation}} {{LinkEntry|Thermohaline Circulation}} {{LinkEntry|Humboldt Current}}")
• diffhist N Science, Technology, and Nature 05:31 +149 Parijat talk contribs (Created page with "=== Nature === {{CardGridStart}} {{Card|Weather Systems|icon=⛈️|desc=The core weather systems that affect climate on the planet}} {{CardGridEnd}}")
• diffhist m Stories of Fraud 05:22 +1 Parijat talk contribs
• diffhist m Stories of Fraud 05:22 +1 Parijat talk contribs
• diffhist N Stories of Fraud 05:22 +165 Parijat talk contribs (Created page with "{{LinkEntry|IvarKreuger|The story of the Swedish Match Company}} {{LinkEntry|Enron}} {{LinkEntry|WorldCom}} {{LinkEntry|Bernie Madoff}} {{LinkEntry|SatyamComputers}}")
• diffhist Business, Finance, and Investing 05:14 +110 Parijat talk contribs
• diffhist N Jesse Livermore 05:12 +291 Parijat talk contribs (Created page with "{{HalfFormedThoughts}} === Big Ideas === * '''It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!''': This is not the idea of "buy-and-hold". It is the idea of waiting for the exact right setup and time, before pulling the trigger.")
• diffhist Lessons from investors 05:10 +25 Parijat talk contribs

How We Got Here is a work in progress. Every page is a claim about causation — argue with it on the talk page.