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  1. Jun 20

    20 | The Age of Napoleon: with Everett Rummage

    Few people know the Napoleonic Era better than my host today, Everett Rummage, who has spent the last 10 years of his life studying it and making his research available through his excellent podcast: "The Age of Napoleon".

  2. Jun 17

    19 | An uncomfortable truth: the real reason that Britain came to dominate the world

    One word. India. YouTube link for this episode: https://youtu.be/y2Xrgn2wFaE (0:00) Intro (1:20) Origins of the British East India Company (2:25) The majesty of the Mughals (5:07) Back to the East India Company (7:46) The British beg Aurangzeb's forgiveness (9:37) Chaos after Aurangzeb's death (12:13) Enter Robert Clive (15:36) WWI: The Seven Years' War (17:55) The Battle of Palashi ('Plassey') (20:34) Shah Alam signs over the Diwani (22:45) India: Britain's golden goose (30:18) What happened to the Spanish?

  3. Jun 16

    18 | How the British f**ked up in Afghanistan

    My retelling of the events described in "Return of a King" by William Dalrymple. (0:00) Lords Auckland, Wellington, and Melbourne (5:38) The British East India Company (8:46) What is a sepoy? (11:55) 1858-1947: The British Raj (12:50) Back to the Koh-i-Noor (16:58) Kabul: an ancient crossroads (21:24) The British and their Russophobia (23:47) India: the British Empire's golden goose (25:13) Let's reinstall Shah Shuja (28:19) The disastrous retreat of 1842 (33:45) The accursed Eden family (37:50) More horrors of war (39:09) Don't f**k with the Afghans

  4. Jun 12

    17 | Origins of Noah's Ark

    Spoiler Alert: the Ark is from Iraq (love how that rhymes). YouTube link for this episode: https://youtu.be/TU2QiCFzykA If you would like to get in touch: Email: rmarais824@gmail.com X: @Skerkwagga1939 Instagram: @richardlikeshistory Produced by Richard Marais (0:00) 3,600 years of flood myths (2:27) Sîn-lēqi-unninni (3:34) The Atrahasis: Babylon's flood myth (6:39) Sîn-lēqi-unninni: Iraq's Homer (8:01) The Epic of Gilgamesh (15:00) Ashurbanipal of Nineveh (19:26) Old Persian helps decipher cuneiform (24:51) The Rigveda of Hinduism

  5. Jun 12

    16 | Enheduanna: humanity's first author

    We should all know that humanity's oldest author was the formidable high priestess of Ur, who lived 4,300 years ago. YouTube link for this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzVvk73X1iI Speaking of rivers, here is a really cool and quirky video by one of my favourite YouTubers, Beau Miles: https://youtu.be/GnSUre9C_Nc?si=g46hXW-2ie-hpXek If you want to get in touch: Email: rmarais824@gmail.com Instagram: @richardlikeshistory X: @Skerkwagga1939 Produced by Richard Marais (0:00) Enheduanna's exaltation (4:36) Sargon of Akkad (5:59) Uruk: the first city? (7:12) The people of Enheduanna's time (10:49) Enheduanna's fate

  6. Jun 11

    15 | Where does writing come from?

    The very symbols that I have used to write this description have a more fascinating past than almost anything you can imagine. YouTube link to this episode: https://youtu.be/tyOJPYqKqcE If you want to get in touch: Email: rmarais824@gmail.com Instagram: @richardlikeshistory X: @Skerkwagga1939 Produced by Richard Marais (0:00) Back to the Bronze Age (3:22) Ancient Egypt (9:48) The people of the Bronze Age (14:07) The Homeric Epics (15:57) Origin of the Turks (16:39) Who had writing in the Bronze Age? (20:49) Bronze Age Collapse (29:24) Enter the Chinese (30:11) Phoenicia saves our ass (38:00) Greeks add vowels (40:28) The Alphabet spreads (45:30) The exceptions (48:09) Epilogue

  7. Jun 5

    14 | What even was the Bronze Age?

    What was the world really like 5,000 to 3,000 years ago, when Odysseus supposedly sailed back from Troy? YouTube link for this episode: https://youtu.be/_Gihp_OUye0 Email: rmarais824@gmail.com Instagram: @RichardLikesHistory ⁠ X: @skerkwagga1939 Produced by Richard Marais (0:00) The Fertile Crescent and Egypt (3:30) Europe and 'Ancient Greece' (7:29) China (9:13) The Indus (12:38) Southern Africa: Earth's first iron smelters (14:16) South America and the 'quipu' system (17:52) Russia and the Siberian frontier (20:21) Australia (22:39) Pasifika (25:19) Southeast Asia and its "Peaceful Bronze Age" (27:19) North America: hunter-gatherer metropolis

  8. Jun 3

    13 | How did a Mediterranean sea snail inspire the Israeli flag? And is God supposed to have a wife?

    Why is the Israeli flag blue? Was Yahweh from Arabia or Egypt? And when did the Israelites stop worshipping his wife, Asherah? YouTube link for this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLswO5O2Ffo Email: rmarais824@gmail.com Instagram: @RichardLikesHistory X: @skerkwagga1939 Produced by Richard Marais (0:00) 5,000 years of Arabian Sea trade (2:57) Indigo: India's blue gold (3:56) Murex snails in the Mediterranean (5:06) Tekhelet: Biblical blue (6:01) The secret recipe for Tekhelet is lost (6:40) God mandates blue fringes (11:31) Otto Elsner rediscovers Tekhelet after 1,300 years (12:31) Where the hell does Yahweh come from? (15:48) Moses, Midian, and the Burnish Bush (17:59) Yahweh becomes El and marries Asherah (20:50) Babylonian defeath turns Israel monotheistic (23:34) What do we actually know about Moses?

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