What if... hannibal had taken rome?

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

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How the Qin forged a great power from the fragments of the Warring States