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Athens' Golden Era

Pericles' Winding Road to Power

Pericles Makes His Move

Q&A for History of Mankind (17)

A Triumph For Liberty

"We've Fxxxxx the Persians"

Salamis & Plataea

300

Emperor Whisperers: The False, Ancient Greek Debate About Totalitarianism

Cincinnatus, A Democratic Hero for Oligarchic Rome

Coriolanus & Rome's Patrician Era

The Origins of Rome

The Fight for the Western Mediterranean: Carthage Vs Greeks

The Rise of Carthage & Rome

The Battle of Marathon

Q&A for History of Mankind (16)

The Road to Marathon

The Great Achaemenid Empire

How to Read A History of Mankind (From 600 BC Onwards)

Siddhartha & the Buddhist Revolution

Cyrus & the End of the Babylonian Exile

Emperor Whisperers: The Dream About a Butterfly that Shaped Chinese Thought

The Short-Lived Neo Babylonian Empire

Confucius' Generation & The Art of War

Confucius: Life & Work

Laozi, China's First Philosopher

Q&A for History of Mankind (15)

The Breakdown of China's Old Empire

China's Spring & Autumn Period

Pythagoras & the Western Greeks

The Radical, Anti-Democratic Pythagorean Sect

The Flight of the Ionians

“Oh Father Zeus, May I Get Rich”

What I'm Reading: World War II Today

Thales & Croesus

Why Greek Poleis Produced So Many Geniuses

Q&A for History of Mankind (14)

Democracy Arrives in Athens

Solon's Athens

Tyrants Vs Greek Merchants

Sappho & the Origins of Greek Theatre

Emperor Whisperers: How the Chinese Language Shaped Eastern Philosophy

Hesiod, Aesop & the First Greek Writers

Ancient Egypt & the Greeks

Gods & Lawmakers in Homer's Greece

The Axial Era

The Fall of Assyria & the First Jewish Diaspora

The King & the Scholars: Ashurbanipal in Babylon

Q&A for History of Mankind (13)

When Babylon was the Center of the World

Debate Until Heads Fall Off: India's Religious Philosophy

Emperor Whisperers: From Socrates to Chinese Lawyers

The Dawn of Vedic India

The Creation of India's Caste System

The Aryan Invasion of India

The Rise of Assyria's Greatest King

Q&A for History of Mankind (12)

Egypt's Black Dynasty

Assyria's Rise to Super Power Status

Semiramis & the Babylonian Era

Emperor Whisperers: Indian Mythology Vs Greek Mythology

From Phoenicia to Carthage

Invite your friends to read A History of Mankind

Achilles, Hector, Odysseus & the Greeks

How the Greek Nation Emerged from Greek Literature

Q&A for History of Mankind (11)

How Sports Were Invented: The Greek Olympic Games

What I'm Reading: Ancient Beat

This Is Sparta (II): Crazy, Feminist Warriors

This Is Sparta (I): Freedom & Equality

Emperor Whisperers: Point Deer Make Horse

Settlers Vs Natives: How the Greek Poleis Were Built

The Era of Greek Colonization

What I'm Reading: PastPresentFuture

Hard Times in Archaic Greece

Q&A for History of Mankind (10)

The First Civilizations of Peru's Highlands

Join me on Notes

The World of Mexico's Olmecs

The Zhou's Decline & China's Great Divergence

How the Haiku was Invented in Zhou's China

The Mandate of Heaven: How China Became Chinese

Q&A for History of Mankind (9)

The Colorful Fall of China's Shang Dynasty

The First Religious Radicals

Assyria's Mass-Murdering Warlords

How to Read A History of Mankind (Posts 1 to 79)

King David & King Solomon

Q&A for History of Mankind (8)

Persia's Zoroaster, the First Prophet

The First Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa

The Rise of Assyria & the Fall of Egypt

The Sea Peoples (II)

Q&A for History of Mankind (7)

The Sea Peoples (I)

Iron (Age) Men

Ramesses II & Egypt's Golden Era

What I'm Reading: Unruly Figures

Qadesh: the Great Hittite-Egyptian Clash

Q&A for History of Mankind (6)

The Bronze Age Cold War

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