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Just endless, endless, endless, hundreds and hundreds of these courses and whatnot. I just found a new one. I thought I had heard this course already. This is a different one. This kind of big history. I've tried, I've been listening to all the big history courses they offer.

This one's called the big history of civilizations using cutting edge historical approach to trace the story of human civilizations from our emergence as a species 36 30 minute lectures.

Oh boy that'll keep me busy for at least a week maybe more a tale of two ancient

cities the rise of humanity foraging in the old stone age.

I guess that's the Paleolithic, right?

Origins of agriculture, power, cities and states, it's all about power.

You got to capture energy or else you can't have cities and states it's all about power you got to capture energy or else you can't have

cities and states. The era of the agrarian civilizations innovations of

Mesopotamia the downfall of Sumer society and the culture of Egypt. I'm going to skip down here.

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