Archive - A History of Mankind

Quick Take: How to Argue in any Comments Section

Tricks that I learned the hard way

Mar 23

No Sex, Please, We're Roman

A History of Mankind (232)

Mar 21 •

The Greatest Engineering Power of All Time

A History of Mankind (231)

Mar 19 •

Quick Take: Bipartisan Systems Are the Bane of Human History

Bipartisan systems optimize resources in a destructive way, as they create a just-big-enough majority with a just-scary-enough rival/enemy to beat, and…

Mar 17 •

Why Did Roman Provinces Rarely (if Ever) Revolt Against the Empire?

A History of Mankind (230)

Mar 15 •

The Roman Globalization (II)

A History of Mankind (229)

Mar 13 •

Quick Take: How the US Created the European Union

The US needed a system to herd its European vassals together, so DC created one

Mar 11 •

The Roman Globalization (I)

A History of Mankind (228)

Mar 9 •

An Unlikely Imperial Family: the Julio-Claudians

A History of Mankind (227)

Mar 7 •

Quick Take: How the French Invented Love

Love was invented by people like Don Draper to rebel against religious and social imposition

Mar 5 •

The Myth of the Pax Romana

A History of Mankind (226)

Mar 3 •

The Creation of the Roman Empire

A History of Mankind (225)

Mar 1 •

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