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Measuring the Size of the World | Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon
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Why It's Called the "Dark Ages" - ideonexus
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| | [AI summary] The post argues that the period known as the 'Dark Ages' was actually a scientific and cultural void caused by the suppression of knowledge by Christianity and Islam, presenting a timeline of scientific discoveries to highlight the gap in Western progress between 100 AD and 1300 AD.
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Steam engine time | Logarithmic History
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| | The steam engine was a childof seventeenth century science; the Scientific Revolution gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. That's not at all the conventional story, but David Wootton's recent bookThe Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolutionmakes the case. According to the conventional story, the steam engine resulted from the work of...
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Can China rescue the classics? - UnHerd
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses how Chinese government and academic interest in Greek philosophy and classics is growing as a strategic tool and a potential lifeline for the discipline facing cultural tensions in the West.
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Aristocrats, Retainers and Clients - A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - Solutons Lounge
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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.