From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   >Reading a book on the early history of Mesopotamia just made me sad.   
   >The first city-states in the world, the beginnings of civilization,   
   >and they spent centuries warring against each other. Time after time,   
   >a strong king would arise who unified a bunch of them into something   
   >resembling the beginnings of empire and some kind of peace within its   
   >borders, only for it to fall to bits again after his death, and   
   >everybody to go back to warring against each other again.   
      
   Sadly, this is the story of so many places.  China is one of the most   
   fascinating.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)