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"Assyria was above all a militaristic state: it ruled by terror, or, as one writer has put it, by ‘calculated frightfulness’."

This has to be one of the funniest lines I've read in an academic book like this.
Aug 13, 2025 08:31PM
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"It is no exaggeration to suggest that the man–horse partnership has empowered humans, increasing out of all proportion their creative, and destructive, powers."
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