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  1. A Marxist History of the World part 12: India: the Mauryan Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the growth of the Mauryan Empire which at its zenith encompassed almost the whole of what is today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
  2. A Marxist History of the World part 13: China: the Ch'in Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of the Ch'in Empire - short-lived, created by conquest and terror and characterised by extreme centralisation, military-style exploitation, and murderous repression.
  3. A Marxist History of the World part 7: The Spread of Civilisation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner looks at the spread and development of ancient city civilisations around the world, each governed by a new ruling class of priests, city-governors and war-leaders.
  4. A Marxist History of the World part 8: Crisis in the Bronze Age
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Why did Bronze Age empires rise and fall amid crisis and war? And why did this contradictory social form simply replicate itself over long periods of time? Neil Faulkner looks at the evidence.
  5. A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
  6. Social inequality in Early Bronze Age Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Recent research into Bronze Age populations in Germany provides some insight into a certain aspect of class formation, which may be more broadly relevant. In Europe, aside from the Aegean area, such civilizations did not develop in the same manner as in the territories to the east, with their high degree of urbanization and intensive, often irrigation-based, agriculture.

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