Bad Omen
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Many of the objects inside the Cabinet are one of a kind, or at least very rare. Today's tour will expose you to two more stories that will fit that mould perfectly.
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| 0:00.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:07.2 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:13.1 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:27.8 | In 66 AD, the Eastern Mediterranean became the site of a major conflict between the Jews |
| 0:33.7 | and the Roman Empire. |
| 0:35.5 | The Jewish people had endured enough of the Roman's success of taxation practices, and |
| 0:40.0 | so they revolted, and the Romans retaliated. |
| 0:44.3 | A fighting carried on for four long years, with the conflict reaching its climax in the |
| 0:48.5 | city of Jerusalem. |
| 0:50.2 | Jewish men, women, and children of fighting age took up arms against their oppressors, hoping |
| 0:55.4 | to fend them off. |
| 0:56.8 | The Roman armies were too strong. |
| 0:59.3 | They tore down the city walls and burned the temple to the ground. |
| 1:03.9 | In the end, Jerusalem fell to the Romans. |
| 1:07.0 | Survivors were taken into slavery and their culture was almost eradicated. |
| 1:13.5 | Many centuries later, the Romans found themselves at the center of another battle, this time |
| 1:17.8 | against Attila and his army of Huns. |
| 1:20.8 | They fought in an area of modern-day Eastern France. |
| 1:24.6 | Attila's plan was to invade Gaul, a Roman territory made up of several European countries, |
| 1:30.1 | including modern-day France, Belgium, Northern Italy, and Luxembourg. |
| 1:34.5 | However, while both sides faced casualties in the thousands, in the end it was Attila |
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