Did you ever hear about cliodynamics? It is the mathematical modelling of history. Its name was by scientists, who immigrated from Russia into the USA, derived from the name of the muse Kleiō (Κλειώ).

I only recently learnt the name cliodynamics, but I previously knew about attempts to mathematically model history. As the milestones of history were wars identified and the most recent discovery is that the development of new weapons is a driving force. These things, by the way, did seem to me to be self-evident. Qín Shǐhuángdì (秦始皇帝) unified China and King Alexander III of Macedonia built a big empire by conquests. Both were able to do so because they both were early adopters of Iron Age technologies. Nazi Germany expelled Jews, so Nazi Germany lost Albert Einstein, the inventor of the nuclear bomb, to the USA and hence couldn’t have the game changer. But the dominance of the USA got undisputed instead. Although those things are obvious, history classes teach only to ignore them. Only if you’re bad in history as a subject in school, then you have the chance to learn the one or other thing from history.