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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    The Entire History of Venice (opens the original)

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    CHECK OUT OUR MAP STORE HERE: https://www.redbubble.com/people/MapStory/shopWATCH THIS AND ALL OUR VIDEOS OVER ON SPOTIFY:Venice's history began in the fifth century, as the Western Roman Empire collapsed under barbarian invasions, people from mainland towns like Padua, Aquileia and Treviso fled to the muddy islands of the Adriatic lagoon, where the water kept armies away. To build on such unstable ground, they drove thousands of wooden piles into the mud until they reached firm clay. Starved of

  2. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    The Entire History of the Reconquista (opens the original)

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    CHECK OUT OUR MAP STORE HERE: https://www.redbubble.com/people/MapStory/shopWATCH THIS AND ALL OUR VIDEOS OVER ON SPOTIFY:The Reconquista was a series of military campaigns waged by the Christian kingdoms of northern Iberia against the Muslim-ruled territory of al-Andalus. Spanning the early eighth century to 1492, it is often imagined as one continuous holy war, but was really a fractured, on-again-off-again struggle marked by shifting alliances and internal rivalries, with as much fighting bet

  3. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    The Entire History of the Spanish Empire (opens the original)

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    CHECK OUT OUR MAP STORE HERE: https://www.redbubble.com/people/MapStory/shopWATCH THIS AND ALL OUR VIDEOS OVER ON SPOTIFY:Spain today covers 195,365 square miles on the Iberian Peninsula, plus the Balearic and Canary Islands and the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Yet at the start of the 19th century, Spanish claims exceeded 5 million square miles, stretching from California to Argentina and across the Pacific to the Philippines. Nearly all of this was acquired in just three centuries, one of the

  4. Issue · Jul 27, 2026

    History Behind The Headlines: Europe's Wildfires (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="408" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MKYP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e703102-413a-48e0-8f23-eb3d1be8d92e_612x408.jpeg"

  5. Issue · Jul 13, 2026

    The Entire History of the Crusades (opens the original)

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    CHECK OUT OUR MAP STORE HERE: https://www.redbubble.com/people/MapStory/shopWATCH THIS AND ALL OUR VIDEOS OVER ON SPOTIFY:The Crusades emerged from a fractured Mediterranean world in the mid-11th century: a divided, feudal Catholic Europe loosely unified under the Pope, a weakening Byzantine Empire ruling from Constantinople, and a fractured Islamic world split between rival caliphates. Into this landscape came the Seljuk Turks, who conquered Persia and Baghdad, then crushed the Byzantines at Ma

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