Okay so pastoral North Africans called Berbers had long traded with West Africans, with the Berbers offering salt in exchange for West African gold. That may seem like a bad deal until you consider that without salt, we die, whereas without gold, we only have to face the universe’s depraved indifference to us without the benefit of metallic adornment.
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John Green, Crash Course World History #16: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa (via thehuckleberry)
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When the devil tries to tempt you…
When a holy Catholic boy decides to enter the seminary…
When you sit next to your crush at mass so you can hold her hand during the Our Father…
When a non-Catholic asks if you actually believe in transubstantiation…
When you forget to say the new translation…
At the end of Adoration when they remove the blessed sacrament…