Category Archives: Ancient History

The feat of Atilla“…The people of the Huns, but little known from ancient records, dwelling beyond the Maeotic Sea near the ice-bound ocean, exceed every degree of savagery. Since there the cheeks of the children are deeply furrowed with the steel from…

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For this “10 things” I am going to constraint the historical period to the period before 1000 BCE. Basically all that came before Greece and Rome (from a Western perspective). 1) The Bronze Age Near East had its own equivalent of a Westphalian system. See The Brotherhood of Kings. 2) Even in the 3rd Millennium […]

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Razib Khan