It wouldn’t be wrong to say that history as written in history books and as taught in classrooms is boring. Centuries of history, boiled down to merely socio-economic trends, major cultural shifts, and politics at best, while however important, can easily bore anyone. Not to mention it removes the humanity out of history, it distorts our idea of ancient people, they lack individuality. We never really understand the lives of those people this way; most modern people have the idea that people in the past were simple, brutish and far removed from us. But History was built on the lives of millions of individual people, not just great men like Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great or Catherine the Great but also people around them, Caesar’s cook, Alexander’s cobbler, Catherine’s servant, the servants’ kids, and on and on. All these individuals played their part in shaping the world we live in. These people lived their lives as we do, we may not have the same lifestyle or quality of...