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BOOKEmpires

SPQR: How Rome Argued Itself Into Existence

by Mary Beard

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4 minAudioEmpires

EVENTCuba, United States, Soviet Union

October 1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuba, United States, Soviet Union

4 minAudioModern Era

EVENTEastern Mediterranean

1453

The Fall of Constantinople

Eastern Mediterranean

4 minAudioMedieval

EVENTFrance

1789 to 1799

The French Revolution

France

3 minAudioRevolutions