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Dillon Mason is 53% done

Athenians marched to meet their invaders.Seeing some of the Persian fleet head off to take Athens by sea, they knew they had to attack.On the line is their city destroyed,women raped, sons castrated,enslaved.They slaughtered them and ran them to the sea.Only to then march 26 miles in one day to beat them to Athens and scare the horde back across the Aegean.That is where you get Marathon runs from. WANGHAF

— Feb 06, 2026 09:51AM

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

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Dillon Mason is 51% done

— Feb 05, 2026 08:37PM

Dillon Mason is 45% done

Leading up to the battle of Marathon

— Feb 01, 2026 06:55AM

Dillon Mason is 38% done

— Jan 28, 2026 06:57PM

Dillon Mason is 27% done

Sparta is trying to expand more and Athens isn’t messing with it.

— Jan 25, 2026 10:32AM

Dillon Mason is 20% done

I’m gonna post my notes in a bit. Bear with me.

— Jan 21, 2026 02:53PM

Dillon Mason is 11% done

The Khorasan Highway: The OG Silk Road

Assyria lasted thousand plus years but their empire couldn’t handle some Aryans on horses and the Medians.

Medians take over. Same playbook as Assyrian which builds resentment Cyrus uses to topple them and create Persian Empire.

Makes biggest empire to date. Runs off the Ionians (Greeks who remember. Alexander is coming to do the exact same thing but to them)

— Jan 20, 2026 01:07PM

Dillon Mason is 4% done

What a privilege it is to be a man of the West.

— Jan 19, 2026 09:50AM