post removed as an example of a "throughout history" question which prohibted per subreddit rules. In brief:

Our guiding principle is that if a thread can be summarised as "tell me random stuff about X through history" then it falls into this category of trivia rather than looking for in-depth answers which is this community’s main focus. Questions likely to be removed are those asking about all history and all places at once.

Do feel welcome to repost if there are specific region(s)/culture(s) - and preferably time period(s) - of interest.