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Q&A for History of Mankind (29)
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
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
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
The Battle of Magnesia & Hannibal's Last Dance
Buddhists Vs Hindus: India's Great (Propaganda) Wars
The Rise of China's Han Dynasty
Quick Take: Why Western People Love Japanese Stuff & Despise Chinese Stuff
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
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
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
The Twilight of China's Warring States
How Rome Bested Carthage (For the First Time)
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)
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)
The Death of Seleucus & the Ugly Birth of Stoicism
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)
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
Q&A For History of Mankind (21)
Aristotle, Alexander's Teacher
Emperor Whisperers: India's Unwittingly Hellenistic Philosophers
Xenophon: Warrior, Historian, Scourge of Persians & Democrats
Dirt for Military Service: the Rise of Roman Landholders
Q&A for History of Mankind (20)
How Rome Became a Military Superpower
Second Anniversary Note: What's Coming Next
Emperor Whisperers: the Religious Way Out for the West
The Iron Age in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mencius, the Idealistic Confucian
Q&A for History of Mankind (19)
Emperor Whisperers: China Invents (Or Discovers?) Communism
Mozi, Confucius' Greatest Victim
Q&A for History of Mankind (18)
The Start of the Peloponnesian War
Emperor Whisperers: Diogenes, Public Masturbator & All-Around Jerk