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Chariots

Chariots—a rant

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Daniel Agnew

Why do people think they need to put history in a box? Why do they think they need to put it in nice little defined categories and say, “These people did things like this, and they never did them like that”? The real world is almost always more complex than the boxes we try to … Continue reading Chariots—a rant

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