Origins
David Reich’s “Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past”
The First Dark Age
( Nothing Written Yet – The Late paleolithic collapse )
The Indo European Expansion
JP Mallory’s “In Search of the Indo-Europeans” David Anthony’s “The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World” Karen Armstrong’s “The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions”, “Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence”
The Second Dark Age
Eric Cline’s “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed”
The Third Enlightenment
( … )
The Third Dark Age
Arthur Herman’s “The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization” Catherine Nixey’s “The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World” Charles Freeman’s “The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason”
The Fourth Enlightenment
( … The Empirical Revolution … ) ( … The Scientific Revolution … ) ( … The technological Revolution … )
The Fourth Dark Age
(Marx, freud, Derrida …. the third revolt by eastern mysticism against european reason)
The History of Warfare
Victor Davis Hanson’s “The Other Greeks”, “ The Western Way of War”, “The Soul of Battle”, “Carnage and Culture”, “The Father of Us All”, John Keegan’s “The History of Warfare”, Martin Van Crevld’s “The Culture of War” William Lind’s “4th Generation Warfare Handbook” -Cheers