Yes, instead we have gangrene, leptospirosis, trepanning, faith healing, no education unless you're clergy, forced labor for 95% of the population, a life expectancy of 40 if you're lucky...
Oh, and taxes! still got those. Have to pay for Richard's crusade, you know. Congratulations on being conscripted as a peasant spearman, now get back up and stand in line with the rest of the fodder.
Fall of Civilizations might interest you. It covers the collapse of past empires, and tries to describe what life was like for the people living in them when they were at their peak, and what we know of life during the decline.
It is not specifically focused on religions, but for most of these cultures their religion was inherently bound up with their politics (both internal and external), economics, industry, and day-to-day life. Describing the society and culture includes a fair amount of detail about their religious beliefs and practices (for instance, you can't really give a useful description of the Egyptian empire without mentioning their gods). Many of the largest surviving ruins have religious significance. Personally, I think framing the religion inside the sociocultural context and history of the civilization makes it more interesting and more understandable.
The Fall of Civilizations YouTube Channel has the podcast episodes set to video of the locations as they are today, along with photos of artifacts from the culture and artistic depictions of what it might have looked like.
This does not satisfy the lowest set. 21-13=8
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Oh, I wondered about the weird cadence, but dismissed it as a recording/editing issue. Thank you for pointing that out.
Tertiary question: we know that Vulcans/Romulans were descendents of the Progenitors, but are Talaxians?
If not, it might not be technically possible for them to interbreed at all, meaning that a Vulcan/Talaxian hybrid could never occur naturally, and also that Tuvix would probably be genetically incompatible with everything and everyone. Therefore, no species - only an anomaly produced by a freak transporter accident.
If by "work" you mean "make a lot of money for war profiteers" and also "create excuses for oppression via force", then yes it works great!
Does Tuvix have two species, or none?
The video in that article is fantastic.
Generative algorithms, and the people intent on replacing artists with them.
Also everyone labeling and/or peddling these things as "Artificial Intelligence".
Also all of the corporations trying to shoehorn them into every product and service and ram them down user's throats.
Also every user that patronizes these things voluntarily.
You're right.
They just shit themselves to death.