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From a World of Iron to Classical Empires
Tides of History
Rome and China - The Two Great Agrarian Empires of the Ancient World
For those of us raised in the West, the earlier history of China is just woefully under-discussed or downright ignored. When we read prior events backwards through the lens of a chosen endpoint, it massively distorts our understanding of how things actually happened. These states' existence in 100 BC was conditional and far more fragile than we often assume. The Roman world nearly split apart at the seams in the coming decades.
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