In July of 2007, during a speech at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy infamously said: “The tragedy of Africa is that the African ...
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History’s largest medieval cities
Long before modern skylines and megacities dominated the planet, the medieval world already contained enormous urban centers ...
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How medieval civilizations built canals, cathedrals, and cities that lasted 800 years without modern machines
From reclaiming half a country from the sea to constructing cathedrals that soared above the pyramids, medieval engineers pulled off infrastructure feats that powered entire civilizations for ...
This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...
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