• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While I, too, am a big fan of the Coffee hypothesis, it should be noted that lots of civilizations had access to caffeine and other stimulants, including the Arabs, Chinese and Incas and probably the Roman’s, Greeks and Persians too.

    And there were a lot of plagues, but most of them happened long before the scientific revolution.