Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer

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xandra_lyn's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This was a really good overall history, however it was almost too vast, and her focus on China and India seemed rather half-hearted. It should have been titled "the history of the countries that made the west" as that's probably more accurate.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Death, and War

War is a huge theme, so the evils of war are depicted. She doesn't go too deep into torture practices, but she does mention some of them occasionally