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A Look into Medieval Homes
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How transportation technologies shaped empires
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Why no Roman industrial revolution?
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Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move
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Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem
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Complex systems collapse faster
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Is This a Tank?
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When Mongols Set Out to Conquer the World, There Was One Limiting Factor: Grass
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part II: Institutions
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Fortification, Part V: The Age of Industrial Firepower
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Interactive maps of Europe in the 19th century
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Fortification, Part IV: French Guns and Italian Lines
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Common Jobs in a Medieval City
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Fortification, Part I: The Besieger’s Playbook
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Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (2019)
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The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
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Who Were the Romans, Part V: Saving and Losing an Empire
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What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants
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Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man
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How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization
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The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos
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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th
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How Apocalyptic Is Now?
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The Battlefield After the Battle
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The Problem With Hexagons
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Studying the demise of historic civilisations
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What was the role of the blacksmith in medieval society?
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Three Common Misconceptions About China
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People Walked Differently in Medieval Times
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The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
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How to Build a Medieval Castle (2016)
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Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt?
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Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes
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Why didn't France adopt the longbow like England did?
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World History Maps and Timelines
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Periodis Web – A Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000
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Civ II game a decade old
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Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia
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Blackhouses of Scotland
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