Images

A c. 1900 photograph showing Lebanese agriculturalists engaged in the ancient process of winnowing grain. (Matson Collection, Library of Congress)

A traditional flat threshing floor.

A panoramic view of Potosí, Bolivia, location of the richest silver mine in the Spanish empire during the 16th-18th centuries.

This artist's illustration shows Bantu farmers using slash-and-burn agriculture to clear arable land. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

A hammered silver nose ornament from Mesoamerica. Colima or Mixtec, 12-14th century. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

A silver beaker in the form of a hunchback figure. Chimu civilization, Peru, 14-15th century. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

The 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau, aka Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1598), a document created during the reign of Louis XIV of France which permitted the persecution of French Protestants. (French National archive, Paris)

A c. 1700 portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud of Louis XIV of France (r. 1643-1715). (Louvre Museum, Paris)

An image illustrating the evolution of the Athenian Acropolis (a fortified citadel and state sanctuary of the goddess Athena) and the city of Athens as it emerged from the devastation and ruin of the Greco-Persian Wars of the 5th century...

A view of the old town of Mainz, Germany.