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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
For these empire-builders, the vast grassy steppe that stretched across Eurasia from Manchuria to Hungary was an open road to commercial wealth and almost limitless power. The trading cities of the Near and Middle East were a natural target.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
exodus.
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
‘Many seasons ago: slavery and its rejection among foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America’
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
lowliest organism as well as for man.