This is an amazing story of Potosí - the first global city populated by the most diverse collection of humans from around the world, almost 350-400 years ago in Bolivia.

I love reading these long articles of history. They provide a lot of perspective and knowledge that you can apply to your everyday life, particularly studying the decline of Potosí…

The end came not as spectacular implosion but as irreversible decline. Lower taxes and the imposition of a harsher labour regimen lifted silver production in the later 18th century, but the mines were deep and mercury expensive. Technological fixes failed.