This is the History of the World Podcast Illuminati Debrief.

Hello everyone, welcome to the history of the world podcast

Illuminati debrief which is now no longer an Illuminatiumnati debris. I'm sorry I just I just realized I shut down my

notes so I normally write a set of notes for the debris so I don't lose my way

but then I realize I've just deleted them so but I've

managed to retrieve them but to be honest with you in this little section of the

show we don't do anything too ambitious do we pretty much tell you the source material that we used for the

podcast that you may hopefully have just listened to about the Ming dynasty and then little bit of news from around the history of

the world podcast itself. So let's look back on our episode on the Ming Dynasty. Really enjoyed writing this one.

Do you know what though? I don't know how much value there is in me saying that because I say that every time don't I I really enjoy writing the episode

but I did really enjoy writing this one it is a fascinating topic and a real view

about the transition from when the Mongols took over China and it really felt like we

came into a bit more of a modern era with the European nations now finally getting

involved in what was going on in the Far East

and how that actually affected China. And also it's interesting to read about the

attitudes of the explorers from both China and from

Europe.

So we really do always seem to come back to the fact that Europeans were very aggressive in their

view of the outside world and maybe that was because just the competition between the

nations was so fierce in Europe that you know and the power was just required in order to survive in that in that

environment in the European environment so maybe maybe that's why but interesting to read about the the voyages of the Chinese

treasure ships and how they brought back these exotic animals and these ambassadors and how they all recognized

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