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A History of Mankind

David Roman, Mark Franek
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The entire history of mankind, in regular installments. Not just European stuff, but the history of all mankind, from the Americas to Sub-Saharan Africa & Oceania

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Liquidate Your Moral Debts

I’m not here to give you life advice, so I won’t. But let me say that moral debts are dangerous things to hold.

It’s not that moral debts (unlike actual money debts) are worth nothing. It’s worse than that: moral debts are dangerous for th...

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Send Me Questions for the History of Mankind Project

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This is a reminder for subscribers to send me any questions you may have for the monthly Q&A, simply by responding to this email, by Substack Notes, message or whatever.

Free subscribers can also send questions, but please note...

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The Shia-Sunni Split

The uprising that gave way to the Abbasid Caliphate was launched from a land long settled and influenced by Iranians, and to some degree inspired by Shia ideas then spreading among Iranian-speaking Muslims.

The Shias, fueled by their remem...

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The Tang Dynasty Globalization

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Under the Tang Dynasty, most foreign goods arrived at Jiaozhi/Hanoi and Panyu/Guangzhou. These were ports with huge foreign populations – living in self-administered wards – that were the main entry points for fo...

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The Holodomor (II): Mass Starvation as a Progressive Tool

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By the early 1930s, non-Russian nationalism in the Soviet republics — including Ukrainian nationalism — for the first time became the target of attacks similar to those long directed against the Russi...

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