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The 21st century poses challenges, however, to autocrats who want a total media capture.

By the 4th century, it had permanently split into eastern and western halves, each with its own emperor.

In the 6th century, it is the East that reconquers part of the West under Justinian.

By the mid-20th century, after years of habitat loss, Bald Eagle populations were in serious decline.

By the 19th century, sleuthing out Native graves in the name of “science” was big business.

Passive design centuries before we use the word "sustainability."

Back in the 19th century, romance novels in Latin America weren’t just about meet-cutes.

So over half a century ago, Carl Sagan first proposed that perhaps there's life in the clouds of Venus.

And for nearly a century, it stood as an unconquered Everest of mathematics.

So by the 10th century in the Macedonian era, the empire is back.

But whatever the precise 8th-century start, it persisted for the next 300 years.

This myth likely arose when a 17th century Danish scholar called Ole Worm mistranslated a reference to animal horns.

In the 21st century, they still use armed enforcers and paramilitaries as Maduro did in Venezuela to make voting difficult for those in the opposition.

But 19th century European colonists faced big problems as they tried to control the sprawling African territories they’d claimed, one of which was biting flies.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Americans of all ages were into collecting Native artifacts and remains for fun.

At the beginning of this century, there were no Chinese billionaires on the Forbes list, and almost 500 million people lived in extreme poverty.

In the 19th century, Oiwa’s quest for vengeance was one of the most popular kabuki theater performances, renowned for its grisly narrative and groundbreaking special effects.

And they ultimately converted to Islam over the following centuries, but they still retain a lot of Zoroastrian traditions.

In the 19th century, gold seduced men and women in a different way, as they hurried to wild frontiers like California and southern Australia for gold rushes.

Can that late 18th century republic adjust, including adjusting to deal with the profoundly disruptive issue of slavery, in a way that allows it to go forward?

This is a dynasty that had lasted for about two centuries, and this has a kind of politically destabilizing effect.

From ancient farmers manually pollinating crops to everyone’s favorite 19th-century pea-plant matchmaker and beyond.

And of course, when history is written about the 21st century, it will all be obvious.

Like, in Mexico, Indigenous farmers have been breeding spineless cacti for centuries as a drought-tolerant crop to feed livestock.

From the fifteenth century onward, European empires embarked on a so-called “civilizing” mission to convert the world to Christianity, bringing with it ideas about sexuality and gender with them.

So of everything you've studied across hundreds of years and centuries, are there aspects of human nature that kind of persist?

They believe that your species’ culture— centuries of literature, music, and art, as well as your achievements in agriculture, medicine, and technology— is what makes life worth living.

Since the middle of the last century, doctors and pharmaceuticals have been working together to deliver treatments for people suffering from schizophrenia, depression, and other mental health issues.

In the beginning of the 19th century, most people in the western world had a solid theory about our origins: all creatures were formed by a single creator.