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What Is Happening in Ceuta?
On July 30th 2026, over 70,000 people moved from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta, an enclave in Northern Africa with only 84,000 inhabitants.
 • Tomas Pueyo
How Households Drive History
The Example of Sumer
 • Tomas Pueyo
50 Learnings from the War in Iran
How has the world has changed since the US and Israel attacked Iran a few weeks ago?
 • Tomas Pueyo
Why Did Islam Spread So Fast in North Africa & Spain?
Opponent weakness, incentives, taxes, ecology, nomads, land
 • Tomas Pueyo
How Did Islam Spread So Fast?
It took only 25 years for Islam to go from being kicked out of a village to controlling everything from Morocco to Pakistan. How?
 • Tomas Pueyo
Why Florence Started the Renaissance
A combination of geographic luck, network effects, and vagaries of history. Can we replicate them today?
 • Tomas Pueyo
How Western Religion Drove Its Architectural Evolution
After the Romans fell, the Byzantines took the witness and continued improving its architecture, while in the West architecture tech was lost, and…
 • Tomas Pueyo
How Roman Technology Drove Its Architecture
The Romans had 3 architecture problems they wanted to solve: bigger indoor spaces, building faster and cheaper, and more indoor comfort. How did they…
 • Tomas Pueyo
How Geography Determines Architecture | Asia
Part 2: Asia
 • Tomas Pueyo
How Geography Determines Architecture
Part 1: Europe & the Mediterranean
 • Tomas Pueyo
The Future of Petrostates After Oil
It’s 2050, and petrostates around the world are in a mess of civil wars and failed states. What happened? Why? What can we do about it?
 • Tomas Pueyo
Iran: The Day After
What's going to happen in the coming days and weeks?
 • Tomas Pueyo
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