How to Read A History of Mankind (From 600 BC Onwards)
A guide to navigating the contents of this Substack covering the years from 600 BC
A few months back, I finished updating a long post that contains links to all of the posts I published from the start of this project, all the way to post 79. It’s here below:
That post will now be archived and left untouched. I will keep updating this new post here and use it as a guide for all future posts, organized by subject. For now, we just got to post 96, but there are a whole lot more to come, with the Roman era about to start. At the current pace, we’re talking about well over 100 posts per year.
Like I’ve said before, there is a lot of stuff to come. I do recommend that people sign up for regular emails, three per week, and read the History of Mankind chronologically; and I recommend that those on the free tier become paying members, so they can read everything (some posts are pay-walled) and also comment on posts, read and participate in the Q&As, and peruse the archives, which are fully pay-walled:
And yet, I do understand that not everyone wants to read the History of Mankind in strict chronological order. I don’t even write all posts like that, although I do publish them in such an order. And not everyone is (like myself) interested in the history of all mankind, every continent and every country. Some people have a particular interest in, say, Western or Indian or Chinese of American history.
My recommendation is that posts are read on a chronological basis, because it makes everything easier to understand, and various subjects and comparisons from different regions are discussed in all posts. Take, for example, Ancient Egypt & the Greeks, or The Fall of Assyria and the First Jewish Diaspora. Almost all posts discuss and compare various societies, or at least specific aspects of their history.
So, remember that some posts below are duplicated because they touch on more than one subject directly; and that all free posts older than eight weeks become fully paywalled. All of these below refer to events dating after 600 BC:
-GREECE:
Greece is Back: the Roman-Greek Renaissance
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-ROME & CARTHAGE:
Why Did the Christian Church Replace the Roman State?
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-CHINA:
From China to Indochina
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-PERSIA & MIDDLE EAST:
How the Jews Stopped Being Stupid
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-SOUTH ASIA:
Sex, Drugs & Gurus: India & the Kamasutra
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-SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:
African Gods Vs European Gods
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-AMERICAS:
The Rise of the Maya
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I will keep populating this list. Still a long way to go with human history!
i wanna read but im broke 🤣🤘
Serious work. Just discovered. While I love staring at my computer for hours on end (not so much)... feel like this would do well as a book. Asking a lot of good questions with what so far seems to be some good analysis / suggestions / hypothesises. Thanks for all that.