THE COURSE OF HISTORY - UNKNOWN FACT

DID YOU KNOW THAT???

• CITIES IN MEDIEVAL INDIA WERE FEW, BUT THEY WERE LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE..

• KNIGHTS CONSIDERED IT ‘GALLANT’ TO CAPTURE ANOTHER KNIGHT IN A FEUD AND THEN DEMAND RANDOM MONEY FROM HIM..

• ‘SATI’, WHICH MEANS A VIRTUOUS WOMAN, WAS THE TRADITIONAL HINDU PRACTICE IN MEDIEVAL INDIA OF A WIDOW IMMOLATING HERSELF ON HER HUSBAND’S FUNERAL PYRE. SATI WAS WORSHIPPED AS A GODDESS, AND TEMPLES WERE BUILT IN HER HONOUR..

• IN EUROPE ABOUT 50,000 WOMEN WERE EXECUTED AS WITCHES..

• IN THE MEDIEVAL AGES, A FARMER COULD HARVEST ONLY THREE BAGS OF CORN FOR EVERY BAG OF SEEDS HE HAD SOWN. TODAY THEY HARVEST A LOT MORE, THANKS TO ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZERS..

• THE WORLD FAMOUS PAINTING MONA LISA WAS PAINTED BY LEONARDO DA VINCI..

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