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Re:The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Ro... by keeganjw on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:55PM (#13330170)
Hmmm, maybe the book Guns, Germs, and Steel would be an interesting start. It's a beefy and detailed book, but interesting. Definitely a broad overview. Also, I think the made it into a movie. That might be more digestible.

I've always like Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. He covers a broad range of subjects but they're ways great!

Ancient China is also really awesome to learn about. It's not studied so much in the west but they had some extraordinarily advanced civilizations and cities well before those in Europe. Japan, Egypt, the Middle East all have pretty mind-blowing histories.

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Re:The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Ro... by irrational on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:13PM (#13330927)
He says he's "particularly [interested in] pre-classical Greece" but you recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel. I'm wondering why since the later is much more relevant to modern history (by modern I mean post 600 AD) than pre-classical Greek history.
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