Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Cogito" channel.

  1. South-Park-style.
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  2. To be called a “civilization”, you have to have 4 things: urbanization, division of labour, metalworking, and writing. The first place in the world where all these came together was in Mesopotamia.
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  3. You think that’s bad, look at the last rulers of an independent Egypt, the Ptolemies and Cleopatras -- a line of brother-sister unions over 5 generations!
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  4. 9:50 So Haiti was the first true democracy in the Western hemisphere?
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  5. Caffeine is a drug, too.
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  6. Why does his voice remind me of Ardal O’Hanlon? “Oh, right, Ted!”
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  7. 4:40 Dang. That’s the whole legitimacy of the Celtic succession destroyed at a stroke.
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  8. 11:25 Notice they didn’t bother building pyramids any more in New Kingdom times.
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  9. 5:55 Seems they really did spell it that way.
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