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Curated paths through the Library — five to seven entries that tell a continuous story. Read them like a guided tour, or steal what you want and wander off.
Gold across the Sahara
7 entries · featuredSix centuries of West African empires, told through the salt-and-gold caravan trade that paid for them.
The fall of Rome isn't the fall of Rome
5 entriesWhat actually ended in 476 — and what kept going for another thousand years, in a different city, speaking Greek.
Steel and steppe
7 entriesHow a confederation of nomad clans on the Mongolian plateau remade Eurasia in eighty years.
The axial age
6 entriesSix teachers, all alive within a few generations of each other on three different continents — and the shape of moral thought ever since.