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Comparing German feudal migration to Eastern Europe to capitalist migration to the Americas is handy.

Finally getting to the part where Rome gets involved in the Hellenistic world. The thesis that Rome wasn't exceptionally belligerent is being hammered home.

The focus shifts from the West to the East. I never hear enough about the Norse trade in Russia. Also, got cheeto stains on the outside of some pages.

Issued from a post-tribal ethnic minority, triumphant in late Antiquity, dominant in feudalism, decadent and renascent under capitalism, the Roman Church has survived every other institution- cultural, political, juridical or linguistic -historically coeval with it. (footnote 11 pg 131-132)

The cops bug Perry's office!

What are complex societies? Chiefdoms, states, head men, and the limits of conflict and integration theories.

Good bits about the derivatives revolution. Didn't really know about the 300% increase in US agricultural exports from 1972 to 1980 led by the "Fructose Revolution." Also, info on the US Treasury strong-arming the UK Labour government over the 1976 IMF loan.

Interesting bit on gravitas vs. celebrity and factoring in for people still alive.