A History of Mankind

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How China Lost Central Asia
A History of Mankind (265)
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Quick Take: How Organized Sport Wrecked the Roman Empire
If religion is the opium of the masses, organized sports is the fentanyl of the masses
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Quick Take: Why Economic History is Mostly Bullshit
State bankruptcies and sovereign defaults have been used as propaganda tools, not as meaningful datapoints
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Buddhism Arrives in China
A History of Mankind (267)
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How Moral Religions Took Over the World
A History of Mankind (264)
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How Christianity Cracked Down on Rome's Sexual Free-for-All
A History of Mankind (263)
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Q&A for History of Mankind (35)
The discovery of the first alphabet rewrites the history of literacy. Plus questions about Tartessos, Alexander the Great, my Jeffrey Epstein movie …
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Quick Take: Are European Empires to Blame for the Dispossession of Native Americans?
The US Supreme Court is to blame for many things, including a made-up doctrine that justified the mass ethnic cleansing of Native Americans
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Paul, the Man Who Created Christianity
A History of Mankind (262)
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North to South: The Great Chinese Population Transfer
A History of Mankind (261)
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Quick Take: India, the Country with no Religious Wars
Much of mankind belongs to religious communities created in India, a country where indigenous religious competition didn't result in any religious wars
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The Post-Communist Restoration of Eastern Han China
A History of Mankind (260)
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