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How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history

How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history

Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and contentious – today.

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What is the ‘Thucydides trap’ Xi warned Trump about? Lessons from an ancient war between Athens and Sparta

What did Thucydides really say on this? And what’s Athens and Sparta got to do with the current state of US-China relations?

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