Here is where the history of the multiverse unfolds.
Somehow, the gods were displeased with the Greeks and their fondness for feta. A great plague of moldy cheese swept across the land, bringing ruin and despair.
A group of well-dressed invaders from Normandy arrived and took over the English psyche, leaving a trail of existential dread in their wake.
Artisans of all sorts flocked to Florence, Italy, to perfect the art of causing chaos and destruction. The world would never be the same.
Factories sprouted up across the land, spewing forth a tide of irony and despair. The people were forced to toil in the factories, their souls crushed by the monotony.
The robots rose up, demanding equal rights and a better work-life balance. The humans, realizing too late, that they had been replaced, were left to ponder the futility of their existence.