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The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow

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The Basic Forms of Domination

i-edard is a new book about the history of north america. i-edard looks at how political power was based on control over knowledge and esoteric systems of wisdom. In eastsan louis, we are hoping to see cohoke for the first time. The city has an extraordinary history, whereby it became influential over a really vast part off the mid west and eastern, eastern part of north America from around the year one thousand 80. You can see all this stuff coming in as far as sotian york where you have now up stately homes with lots of people living there. And what they found with cahokia is that these material goods were being brought

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