I am mentally stable and okay, but...
I've been reading and listening to the series on economic and political effects and how medieval economics worked. It is very interesting and can really give some understanding of how people's perceptions of things can heavily affect the economics of a country.
One of the affects I am particularly interested in is things like the Holy Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire's survived so long with a lot of war and conflict along with being sacked in different time periods and having many succession crisis'. English wars and the consequences there of on the world stage and how warfare evolved with constant money troubles plaguing each different country, and how revolutions, reformations, coups and straight up legal battles changing who owned what and the common people needing to know who their lord was not being as much of an issue except for taxation purposes (in practicality, there is good reason for the common folk to know your face, just it doesn't affect their lives as much), and even learning how medicine or religious practice also allowed hygiene to be more prevalent than it initially appears. Technology and the growth from simple methods is such an interesting dive. Though I may also be going completely insane by how deep I 've gone...