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mikedashhistory.com
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| | | | | Why has everybody heard of Spartacus, when they have never heard of Eunus? The Thracian gladiator's forgotten predecessor led a slave war against Rome that was five times the size, and lasted three times as long - and he did it breathing fire and spouting prophecy as an annointed god-king, too. | |
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mattlakeman.org
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| | | | | The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was terrible. It was a prolonged period of pestilence, famine, torture, rape, plunder, destruction, conquest, cultural eradication, and general misery, with a short term death toll of something like 600,000 (including military and civilian casualties), and a long term death toll in the millions. And yet part of me... | |
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solutionslounge.com
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| | | | | For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some 'tribal' peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. | |
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crookedtimber.org
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| | | 2024 is here, the year of the election. As the world begins to tune in to the greatest show on X, the question on everyone's lips is: Why the hell is everybody so old?? In the summer of 2022, I pub... | ||
