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Q&A for History of Mankind (29)

Sulla's Revolution

Christmas Special: A History of Generation Ships in Science-Fiction

Mithridates & the First Planned Genocide in History

The Italian Plot Against the Republic

Marius' Challenge to Patrician Rome

Quick Take: the Mystery of Australia's Aboriginals

China's Confucian Overdose

The Invention of Chinese Politics

Hasmonean Israel & the Dead Sea Scrolls

Quick Take: Japan Didn't Surrender Because of the Nukes, and Ukraine Wouldn't Either

The Great Jewish Divide: Pharisees & Sadducees

Rome Vs Germanic Tribes, Round One: the Genocide of the Cimbrii

Quick Take: Dictionaries Are Weapons of Mass Destruction

Jugurtha's Filthy Little War & the Rise of Marius

Q&A for History of Mankind (28)

Quick Take: Sparta, Definitely, Absolutely 100% Not a Fascist State

Why the Roman Senate Tried to Stop Roman Expansion

Rome's Ptolemaic Game in Egypt

Quick Take: Why Do Liberal States Dream of World Conquest?

The Prolonged Agony of Emperor Wu's China

Emperor Wu & Ancient China's Zenith

Quick Take: The Spanish Solution to the Ukrainian War

The Gracchus Revolution (II): Blood on the Streets

The Gracchus Revolution (I): Plebeians Vs Patricians

The Imperial Roman Republic

Marriage of Convenience: How Greeks & Romans Became Graeco-Romans

The Rebirth of Jewish Nationalism & the Seleucids' Last Stand

A Chat About Hitler & Mussolini, and How They Blew Their Winning Hand in WW2

Quick Take: Hitler & Mussolini Were Absolute Idiots

The Final Triumph of Chinese Confucianism

Q&A for History of Mankind (27)

Prosperity for the People, Murder & Mutilation at Court: the Heyday of Han Dynasty's China

How the Roman Republic Made Italy Wealthy & Gaudy

Quick Take: No, Muslim Scribes & Translators Didn't Save the Graeco-Roman Legacy

How Rome Trounced the Greeks

The Battle of Magnesia & Hannibal's Last Dance

Rome Takes It All

Buddhists Vs Hindus: India's Great (Propaganda) Wars

The End of Greek India

The Rise of China's Han Dynasty

Quick Take: Why Western People Love Japanese Stuff & Despise Chinese Stuff

Liu Bang, China's Gaoler-King

Q&A for History of Mankind (26)

The Last Gasp of China's Qin Dynasty

China's First Reunification & the Terracotta Warriors

Quick Take: Let's Stop Comparing Baddies to Hitler

End of the Road for Carthage

Hannibal Reaches Into His Bag of Tricks

Hannibal's Best Shot At Beating Rome

How the Steel Was Tempered: Rome Against Hannibal

Hannibal Strikes: How Carthage Almost Won the Second Punic War with the First Blow

Quick Take: Everything You Think You Know about Munich 1938 Is Wrong

Rome & Carthage Return to the Warpath

The Last Hellenistic Kings

Q&A for History of Mankind (25)

Rome Enters the Hellenistic Picture

Greek Privilege, Genital Mutilation & the Colorful Hellenistic World

Sparta's (& Athens') Last Stand

The Forgotten Greatness of Hellenism

Quick Take: the Fake Roman Financial Panic

China Gets the First Emperor

The Twilight of China's Warring States

How Rome Bested Carthage (For the First Time)

The First Punic War

Quick Take: the Roman Joe Biden

Emperor Ashoka (II): Vedic Reaction & the Rise of Hinduism

Emperor Ashoka (I): The Bloodthirsty Buddhist

How the Jewish Bible Became Greek

Q&A for History of Mankind (24)

Greeks Vs Jews

The Great Library of Alexandria

Ptolemy & the Making of Greek Egypt

Quick Take: Roman Weighted Voting & Other Ways to Save Democracy

Pyrrhus of Epirus, the Last Alexander

The Sicilian Warlord Who Invaded Africa

Poll: Getting to Know My Readers Better

The Path to the First Punic War

Quick Take: The Christian Church Didn't Save the West from Cousin Marriage

Slaves Are Us: Rome's Revolving-Door, Bondage-Based Imperialism

How Rome Learned from Its Mistakes & Smashed the Samnites

Q&A for History of Mankind (23)

Epicurus & The Greek Dead End

The Death of Seleucus & the Ugly Birth of Stoicism

The Great Greek Migrations

The Fight for Alexander's Spoils

Emperor Whisperers: The Christian Sacralization of Death

How Non-Stop Wars Drove China's Technological Innovations

Quick Take: the Trials of Caecus, Ancient Rome's Donald Trump

The Queen Who Lay On Her Back & Thought of China

India's Maurya Empire, the First Aryan State

Q&A for History of Mankind (22)

Aryan Warlords of India

How Alexander Spread Hellenism (And Great Food) Across the World

Secrets & Lies: the Alexander Cult

Emperor Whisperers: Lives of Famous Whores, Physical Defects of Mankind & Other Classical Books Lost

Alexander's March to the Ends of the World

The Greatness of Alexander

Alexander Vs Persia

Q&A For History of Mankind (21)

Aristotle, Alexander's Teacher

A Chat with Richard Hanania

From Philip to Alexander

The Rise of Macedon

Emperor Whisperers: India's Unwittingly Hellenistic Philosophers

Xenophon: Warrior, Historian, Scourge of Persians & Democrats

Herodotus Vs Thucydides

Dirt for Military Service: the Rise of Roman Landholders

Q&A for History of Mankind (20)

How Rome Became a Military Superpower

The Gallic Sack of Rome

Second Anniversary Note: What's Coming Next

African Gods Vs European Gods

Emperor Whisperers: the Religious Way Out for the West

The Iron Age in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Fall of Sparta

Socrates & Plato

Mencius, the Idealistic Confucian

Q&A for History of Mankind (19)

Shang Yang & China's Sparta

The Rise of China's Qin State

A Chat with Rob Henderson

Democracy Kills Socrates

Emperor Whisperers: China Invents (Or Discovers?) Communism

Alcibiades' Fall

The Sicilian Expedition

Mozi, Confucius' Greatest Victim

China's Early Warring States

The Confucian Schools

Q&A for History of Mankind (18)

The Start of the Peloponnesian War

Emperor Whisperers: Diogenes, Public Masturbator & All-Around Jerk

Gorgias & the Sophists

The Cosmopolitan Pre-Socratics

Sparta Against Modernity