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Dan Snow's History Hit

Babylon

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

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4.713.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The urban cultures of ancient Mesopotamia formed the foundation for so much of our modern world. Nowhere exemplifies this better than the city of Babylon, which was the cultural seedbed for the Greek and Roman civilisations that in turn left such lasting legacies.


On this episode, Dan is joined by Amanda Podany, professor emeritus of history at the California State Polytechnic University. Amanda draws on an astonishing breadth of original documents and objects to explain just how foundational this civilisation was, and how people learnt to live side by side with one another.


Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.


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1:11.8

Over the next few weeks, you'll be hearing about my stay at the canopy by Hilton in downtown

1:16.0

Boston. I am here to make some shows about the birth of the United States of America,

1:20.8

about the so-called Boston Tea Party. It's not easy being in Boston as a patriotic grit,

1:26.2

walking the main streets, thinking of what could have been, and that's why I'm staying somewhere

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that is a refuge. The canopy by Hilton in downtown Boston. I booked through the Hilton

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honours app, obviously, the reward-winning loyalty programme, and it couldn't have been easier

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thanks to in-app checking at a digital room key after a long flight. I was able to get up to my

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