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6 days ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
(This Quick Take is free. About two-thirds of my post, those of the History of Mankind series, are for paying subscribers only.
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1 week ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. Tribal influence in Roman lands only waned slowly under Roman occupation: as late as 152 AD, traditional pacts between Celtic clans were still renewed in Asturias, northern Hispania.
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1 week ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. With political unrest mostly confined to Rome itself since the end of the civil wars, Romanization1 proceeded at different speeds across the empire, within a general framework of expanding trade and infrastructure.
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1 week ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
(This Quick Take is free. About two-thirds of my post, those of the History of Mankind series, are for paying subscribers only.
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2 weeks ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. The four-year reign of Caligula ended up as a cautionary tale and the source of much head-scratching and gossip for imperial family aficionados and historians.
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2 weeks ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. By 26 AD, sick of dealing with her mother and the senate, Tiberius started to spend long periods in a luxurious villa in Capri, near Neapolis, and left day-to-day management in the hands of Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the long-serving Praetorian Prefect in charge of the powerful guard protecting the emperor and the city.
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2 weeks ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
On April 30, 1975, the last American helicopter took off from the roof of the US embassy in Saigon. It was a historical moment: after two decades of military support and a decade of military operations on the ground leaving 58,000 American and perhaps two million Vietnamese dead, Vietnam was reunited.
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2 weeks ago | 
ideas.gaceta.es | David Roman
Francia tiene problemas. Qué les voy a contar. Un presidente que es la versión finolis de nuestro Pedro Sánchez, un parlamento bloqueado por podemitas vociferantes, una economía comatosa, y el gran Michel Houellebecq tiene tal pinta de vividor terminal que dudo que llegue al final de esta década. Sin embargo, Francia tiene también importantes ventajas.
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2 weeks ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. Under Tiberius’ light-touch guidance, urbanization accelerated across the Roman Empire, with war becoming a marginal, border activity commanded by professional troops far from the main Romanized population centers.
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3 weeks ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. The second half of Augustus’ reign was full of shocks and disappointments. As his preferred heirs died one after another or were otherwise rendered too controversial to be appointed and the East remained unsettled, the northwest frontier became a source of imperial headaches that would last for centuries.
