A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 6
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In more from this sleepy history, we take a tour of the glories of Greece and Persia, the brief blaze of Alexander, and the intellectual legacy of the Golden Age. Dreamy!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
| 0:19.6 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to two new members of our |
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| 1:25.9 | no subscription required you'll find links to both in the show description. Now let's read and relax. Find a comfortable |
| 1:39.6 | spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go. |
| 1:57.0 | Tonight we return to a wonderful book from which we haven't read in some time. |
| 2:06.8 | A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells, first published in 1922 by the Macmillan Company, New York. |
| 2:18.0 | Let's pick up right where we left off in our discussion of classical history. Let's begin. |
| 2:28.5 | Chapter 24 The Wars of the Greeks and Persians. |
| 2:35.0 | While the Greeks in the cities in Greece, South Italy and Asia Minor, |
| 2:41.0 | were embarking upon free intellectual inquiry, and while in Babylon and Jerusalem |
| 2:48.8 | the last of the Hebrew prophets were creating a free conscience for mankind. |
| 2:54.9 | Two adventurous Aryan peoples, the Meads and the Persians, were in possession of the civilization of the ancient world and were making a great empire, |
| 3:07.0 | the Persian Empire, which was far larger in extent than any empire the world had seen hitherto. |
| 3:16.8 | Under Cyrus, Babylon and the rich and ancient civilization of Lydia had been added to the Persian rule. |
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