> Distilled alcohol is recent—it became widespread in China in the 13th century Go Ghengis! That's quite interesting. Lots of Mongol rulers drank themselves

> Distilled alcohol is recent—it became widespread in China in the 13th century Go Ghengis! That's quite interesting. Lots of Mongol rulers drank themselves to death. The timing had world historic consequences: they tended to cark it just after they nuked the entire muslim world from horseback, and just before they moved on to Europe. Maybe the invention of distilled spirits was the key to European domination.