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Part One: Ancient Genocide and the War on Carthage

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Robert and Joe Kassabian discuss the prehistoric roots of genocide and then Rome's genocide of Carthage.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-brutal-massacre-may-be-earliest-evidence-war-180957884/ 
  2. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132230-200-story-of-most-murderous-people-of-all-time-revealed-in-ancient-dna/#ixzz7TZjHsHoi 
  3. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/22/10705 
  4. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03773-6 
  5. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1113150/stone-age-genocide-prehistoric-invaders-yamnaya-corded-ware-europe
  6. https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/first_genocide.pdf 
  7. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2633002420904283 
  8. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/485/genocide-in-the-ancient-world/ 
  9. https://twitter.com/alizaluft/status/1526436238579728384 
  10. https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0032329207308181 
  11. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/129/4/1947/1853091?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false 
  12. https://items.ssrc.org/insights/dehumanization-and-the-normalization-of-violence-its-not-what-you-think/ 
  13. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9780801467158/html

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