U.S. schооl children leаrn thаt Wоrld Wаr I started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated in 1914, triggering a series of interconnected treaties. But in this course, we went back further in one of our mandatory face-to-face in-class attendance-checked lectures, to what? (This is why you come to class, to learn more of the colorful human events of History than a random tutorial or AI and ChatGPT cannot capture, you treasured independent-thinking scholar, you!)