CSPAN3 Lectures In History December 6, 2015
I wanted to hand this out as a lesson, thinking about how were still connected to the past. There are people i dont, they are not my close personal friends, i like you all very much, but to do that, to hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. It was extravagant. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station...