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Volume 5Can you recommend any books or resources that give a good (high level) overview of ancient cultures?
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Kyle Kenyon asks, “Can you recommend any books or resources that give a good (high level) overview of ancient cultures?”
There are a lot of books, but there are two which come to mind off the top of my head that I really like.
The first book is 1491 by Charles Mann. The book covers the latest research on what we know about native peoples who lived in the Americas before European contact. My of my episode on the Great Dying of the Americas was based on his book.
The second is SPQR by Mary Beard. In it, she gives a good overview of the rise of the Roman Republic from a single city to the leading force in the Mediterranean.
Even though I have a pretty good basic understanding, I’m personally looking for recommendations for books about Carthage and Phoenicians, and Ancient China. Feel free to leave them in the Facebook group if you have any.
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