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jonathanez
16-04-2007, 23:26
I love KOH because i LOVE history.

I am Now Reading:

Peter Turchin - War and Peace and War (2006) and i think most KOH-players would love it too. It basically is a world-wide survey of "clashes of civilisations" through history, but in a deep and intelligent way.

He tells you about simillar processes taking place on several frontiers, such as:

Rome-Germans
Rome-Slavs
Bulgar - Byzantine
Byzantine - Arab
Ethiopian - Arab
Persian - Arab
Mongols - Kiev / Ukraine
Castille - Andalus
Pioneers - Indians
China - Huns

(and more!)

and it is nice to see such a structured world-historical view, really gives you a balanced feeling, and it is full of nice historical detail of rises and falls of empires..

review: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-us-collapses-a-scenario/2005/08/28/1125167552525.html

Traveller
17-04-2007, 11:17
Sounds interesting, although I'd call it more like an interesting general observation than rule and prediction...