5 episodes
The History of the Mongols Ben Hill
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- Society & Culture
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4.7 • 47 Ratings
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A weekly podcast about the greatest land empire ever created.
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Tamerlane
Although not a member of Genghis Khan's clan Tamerlane looked to Genghis as he tried to build his own Asian empire.
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Legacy
The Mongols ruled Eurasia for almost 200 years but what was the legacy of their empire?
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The Last Emperor
Between 1333 Toghon Temur ruled as the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. He watched as China was conquered by the Ming and the era of the Mongol empire came to an end.
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Crisis in the West
In the 1350's and 1360's the western half of the great Mongol empire began to break apart into a series of smaller states.
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The Black Death
In the 1330's and 1340's the most devastating pandemic in history swept across Eurasia killing up to 50 million people.
Customer Reviews
Episodes deleted?
I would love to be able to relisten to this excellent, well researched and well narrated podcast. Please could you make the episodes available again 🥲
Excellently told
Enjoyed listening to this when it first came out. Have recently relistened and am probably even more impressed as Ben Hill has an excellent voice to listen to and really seems to know his stuff, which is clearly told, in an interesting manner. Has he done anything else? Does anyone know?
Hard to find history
It’s quite hard to find people talking about Mongols without the “They’re barbarians, murderers, and rapists”. How he talks about facts and speculations without that judgement is refreshing. It is said that history is written by the winners, but the Mongols seem to be an exception as our culture and history didn’t leave much of written hard facts that the historians favour. So those who did wrote, wrote it from the perspective of the folks who were on the receiving end of the invasion. Truly, I appreciate how he spoke without swaying greatly to specific perspective.