Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160109013258/@comment-26932251-20160116072350

" But what happens with the entire world being almost exterminated?"

At this point, I don't believe that actually happened. We only have royal government historical records to go off that we already know are at least partly false. I'm operating on the assumption that the notion that the whole world was exterminated by titans is false until I get some kind of canon storyline confirmation from a source unaffiliated with the royal government.

After all, I would bet actual money if it was practical to do so that the beverage that Armin didn't recognize that they were drinking was coffee and coffee had to come from somewhere far away from the environment depicted in the world within the walls. It only grows in extremely wet and hot environments, tropical in other words.