SPQR: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
How did a city on the Tiber become the center of a Mediterranean empire, and how did Roman political institutions survive repeated…
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The Silk Roads: Summary & Key Ideas
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads presents world history through the networks that connected Asia, the Middle East, Europe and parts of Africa.…
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The Lessons of History: Summary & Key Ideas
Can a small number of broad ideas explain thousands of years of human history? Will and Ariel Durant’s The Lessons of History…
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: Summary & Key Ideas
Why did some societies conquer others, and how much of that history can be explained without assuming that one people was inherently…
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Sapiens: Summary and 7 Ideas About Why Humans Rule the World
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari attempts something unusually ambitious: it asks how one species of human became capable of organizing enormous societies,…
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