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To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. Make sure to become a paying subscriber because they are all pay-walled. Vespasian (r. 69-79) was the first well-balanced adult to become princeps since Tiberius.
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3 days ago | 
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So I had a few people asking me how to find old content. This is why I taped this guide.
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4 days ago | 
mankind.substack.com | David Roman
To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. Make sure to become a paying subscriber because they are all pay-walled. Later Christian tradition, simplified for the consumption of barely literate European medieval courts, would hold that ancient Christians and Jews struggled to teach their exalted view of the one true God to ignorant polytheists, who clung to their silly pagan superstitions.
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To check all previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here. This is the thirty-fourth Q&A for History of Mankind. Paying subscribers received an email asking for questions; and those are right below the paywall.
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1 week ago | 
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To read previous newsletters in the History of Mankind, which is pretty long, you can click here.
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1 week ago | 
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(The first part of this post is here.)As military clashes spread across Yugoslavia in 1991, Croatia became a very particular case within a very particular country: it suddenly found itself with close to a third of the national territory under occupation by Serbs who lived there, descended from people who had lived there for centuries, and who wanted no part of the new Croatian state.
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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 poisonous landscape of early Imperial Rome was only navigable for people with solid connections: people like the Tauri, Roman descendants of Augustus’ general Statili Tauri who recovered their previously lost Taurian Gardens (“Horti Tauri,” just outside of Rome) under Nero.
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2 weeks ago | 
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(This Quick Take is free. About two-thirds of my post, those of the History of Mankind series, are for paying subscribers only. Don’t hesitate to comment and let me know what you think I got wrong, or right or whatever: the chance to get that kind of feedback from a larger audience precisely is one of the main reasons why most of my Quick Takes are free.)Thirty years ago, the first Yugoslavian war ended in Bosnia.
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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. For a while, Emperor Nero’s anger was contained by his capable courtiers and a smooth working relationship with the senate. In 55 AD, Seneca published “On Clemency,” a key work of stoic precepts indicating the path of virtue for a ruler, following Nero's murder of Claudius’ son Britannicus when the latter started to plot against the emperor.
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