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snot

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44. Understood!

Reply to wnylib (Reply #34)

Sun Mar 8, 2026, 12:48 PM

22 hrs ago

I've become very interested in those histories and have starting reading about some of them (although I'm bad at remembering dates and am not sure which cultures arose in what order). Fascinating also for purposes of comparing the successes/failures of different socio-political systems.

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