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History of the World podcast

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/historyoftheworldpodcast/subscribeThis is the History of the World podcast!!! The incredible story of the human history of the world. Come and join us on th... Read more

Ranked #1

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Vol 1 Ep 19 - Megaliths, Part One ( Göbekli Tepe )

Vol 1 Ep 19 - Megaliths, Part One ( Göbekli Tepe )

Göbekli Tepe in the Fertile Crescent appears to have marked the start of a megalithic period which ultimately spread acr... Read more

4 Nov 2018

45mins

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Vol 1 Ep 17 - The origin of villages ( Çatalhöyük / Jericho )

Vol 1 Ep 17 - The origin of villages ( Çatalhöyük / Jericho )

We talk about the emergence of sedentary lifestyles of the Mesolithic and early Neolithic with the interesting story of ... Read more

7 Oct 2018

43mins

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Vol 3 Ep 1 - Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire, Part One

Vol 3 Ep 1 - Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire, Part One

609 - 522 BCE - This episode will bridge the gap between the fall of the Assyrian Empire and the rise of the Achaemenid ... Read more

15 Dec 2019

42mins

Ranked #4

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Vol 2 Ep 3 - Ur

Vol 2 Ep 3 - Ur

3000 - 2000 BCE - The fascinating rise and fall of this iconic Sumerian city-state and a look at the incredible work of ... Read more

10 Feb 2019

52mins

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Vol 2 Ep 37 - SUMMARY - The Ancient World, Part Two

Vol 2 Ep 37 - SUMMARY - The Ancient World, Part Two

1750 - 700 BCE - Continuing the journey through the Bronze Age, crossing over the Late Bronze Age Collapse and into the ... Read more

6 Oct 2019

53mins

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Vol 2 Ep 2 - The Akkadian Empire ( Sargon of Akkad )

Vol 2 Ep 2 - The Akkadian Empire ( Sargon of Akkad )

2300 - 2083 BCE - Sargon the Great conquered Sumer and extended what some refer to as the first Empire.  This is the sto... Read more

3 Feb 2019

43mins

Ranked #7

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Vol 1 Ep 3 - Homo habilis

Vol 1 Ep 3 - Homo habilis

Homo habilis is thought to be the first species of human to have lived.  Find out who he was and who else lived around h... Read more

2 Jul 2018

31mins

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Vol 1 Ep 9 - The origin of Homo sapiens

Vol 1 Ep 9 - The origin of Homo sapiens

Social media indicates that we love talking about ourselves, so let's do it.  Let's talk about ourselves, the modern hum... Read more

12 Aug 2018

42mins

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Vol 2 Ep 36 - SUMMARY - The Ancient World, Part One

Vol 2 Ep 36 - SUMMARY - The Ancient World, Part One

3000 - 1750 BCE - The rise of powerful kingdoms and civilisations in Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley, bronzework... Read more

29 Sep 2019

42mins

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Vol 1 Ep 8 - The ice ages

Vol 1 Ep 8 - The ice ages

Find out about the geological science behind glaciation studies, the effect that ice ages have had on our ancestors and ... Read more

5 Aug 2018

40mins

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Vol 2 Ep 4 - First Babylonian Dynasty ( Hammurabi )

Vol 2 Ep 4 - First Babylonian Dynasty ( Hammurabi )

1900 - 1595 BCE - Semitic speakers from the west had established their own kingdoms throughout Mesopotamia.  The Babylon... Read more

17 Feb 2019

39mins

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Vol 1 Ep 4 - Homo erectus

Vol 1 Ep 4 - Homo erectus

Homo erectus, as the name would suggest, is the first fully upright human and it was definitely a migratory species.  Fi... Read more

8 Jul 2018

33mins

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Unscripted (17) ( The Iron Age )

Unscripted (17) ( The Iron Age )

With this being the last unofficial episode before next week's launch of Volume 3, we take a closer look at the period b... Read more

9 Dec 2019

22mins

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Vol 2 Ep 34 - Ancient weaponry

Vol 2 Ep 34 - Ancient weaponry

2500000 - 700 BCE - Why did we start killing each other and how come we were so good at it?

15 Sep 2019

41mins

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Vol 1 Ep 6 - Prehistoric speech and language

Vol 1 Ep 6 - Prehistoric speech and language

How is it that we can talk?  Why are we the only animal that can successfully produce audio podcasts that can be listene... Read more

22 Jul 2018

29mins

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Vol 2 Ep 19 - Ancient Egypt: Third Intermediate and Late Period

Vol 2 Ep 19 - Ancient Egypt: Third Intermediate and Late Period

1213 - 525 BCE - Just what caused the New Kingdom to collapse and what did Egypt become in the one thousand years betwee... Read more

2 Jun 2019

45mins

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Vol 3 Ep 2 - Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire, Part Two

Vol 3 Ep 2 - Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire, Part Two

522 - 329 BCE - A closer look at the dramatic stories of the empire under the rule of Darius the Great, Xerxes I and Dar... Read more

22 Dec 2019

46mins

Ranked #18

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Vol 1 Ep 22 - Neolithic Mesopotamia ( Uruk )

Vol 1 Ep 22 - Neolithic Mesopotamia ( Uruk )

We explore how all of the Neolithic advances and environmental changes affected the prehistoric peoples and cultures of ... Read more

25 Nov 2018

37mins

Ranked #19

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Vol 1 Ep 7 - The neanderthals

Vol 1 Ep 7 - The neanderthals

The highly anticipated neanderthals, our rugged cousin who appeared to be quite brutish but was surprisingly intelligent... Read more

29 Jul 2018

35mins

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Vol 2 Ep 6 - The Late Bronze Age Collapse

Vol 2 Ep 6 - The Late Bronze Age Collapse

1200 - 1050 BCE - All of the societies of the Near East either weakened considerably or disappeared altogether.  What co... Read more

3 Mar 2019

46mins

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