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Title: A very good way to present history as maps
Review: Small city states, military expansionist empires and a general long term state of anarchy as seen on maps of territory from the fall of the Roman empire about 500 ad to the rise of the new cultures of the post middle ages.With small periods of some stability, the history is one of a lot of aimless wars of conquest where power and wealth seem more important than the welfare of the humanity involved. Wars that were supposed to be about religious ideals mostly in reality seem to have been efforts for the maximum of territory to be conquered.I think this is one of the best ways to see how these systems worked.The horse and the sailing ship seemed to be a limiting factor to these empires and help to the smaller sane city states.I like the book very much.
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