@PugJesus grain prices were influenced by wars...
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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Oh no, Elamites are at war with Canaan. The prices of grain will skyrocket
I should buy contracts representing future options to buy said grain at a predetermined price
You're never going to financially recover from this.
I'm more interested in low-grade copper price than grain.
I fucking hated history in school because it just boiled down to remembering dates of coronations and wars. and writing pages and pages of fucking essays, as an EFL person.
My mother said that's how they used to teach history when she was a kid, and honestly, that probably would've killed my childhood enthusiasm for history.
It did.
Sounds like the kind of guy to get excited to find a record of the kind of shovels the donnar party took with them
I will be interested. Sauce?
... I was actually hoping someone would teach me tbqh
Is there a chance that ancient mesopotamian grain prices lead to wars?
I'd guess probably yes.
I always thought the societal and political reasons for war and how their outcome shaped society and politics was way more interesting (and probably important) than the wars themselves.