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Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered.

For Albert Camus understanding the past and predicting the future may hinge on one fact: history is absurd.

The creation of the Mughal Empire was arguably the crucial event of the early 16th century. The Spanish overthrow of the Aztec and Inca empires in Mexico and Peru, respectively, was of enormous importance, but the percentage of the world’s population in…