What Do You Mean by History Is Contingent?

What do you mean by history is contingent? Sr, very simply, people make decisions. And so for the example that david just gave, right about a belisarius,. If if we take that anecdote at face value, which theres there's all sorts of caviots about whether we should trust hathat cabiot. But he decided to do this in a particular way, in a particular place, at a particular time. Another another momentous decision is urban the second in calling the first crusade. What if he didn't? Ik there were lots of opportunities, you know, for bishops of rome to call for what we think of as as christian holy war. So,