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• ↓ How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history
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"Reading time: 7 minutes In our 100,000 years on Earth, humans have built many kinds of societies. From tribes to empires, from stationary senate chambers to roving nomadic councils, democracy to dictators, we’ve tried it all. Across this time, a few fleeting moments in history have produced a curious social structure of the city-state; sometimes one, often a handful of independent cities amongst a sea of larger empires and kingdoms. Almost every time, these cities became centres of philosophy, art, and technological development. But how? Across history, small, self-governing urban political systems have repeatedly produced progress out of proportion to their size. Join us as we explore some of the most unique and wonderous city-states in history, and how they came to be."

"Reading time: 5 minutes Interestingly, Nolan’s film has reframed the Trojan war as a trade war over a shipping route. This economic motive is absent from Homer’s original. But it would have been a highly relevant theme for the Athenians listening to the Homeric epics hundreds of years later, when actual wars hinged on control of a vital shipping route to the Black Sea, passing right by where Odysseus began his mythological journey home: the Dardanelles."

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"Reading time: 7 minutes Owing to its violent political history, West Papua’s vibrant human past has long been ignored. Unlike its neighbour, the independent country of Papua New Guinea, West Papua’s cultural history is poorly understood. But now, for the first time, we have recorded this history in detail, shedding light on 50 millennia of untold stories of social change."

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The Gift of The City-State: How One Geopolitical Structure Is Conducive To Progress

How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history

Weekly History Quiz No.329

Research sheds light on the deep history of social change in West Papua