This is the history of the World Podcast Illuminati Debray.

Hello once again, hot worlders. Thank you very much for joining me here at the

History of the World Podcast Debrief and it's a it's a look back over this week's episode and look at the sources that I took the

material from and strangely I mean I liked this week's episode

when I wrote it I liked it because it was a little bit different this time it was a

look more at the cultural aspect of China rather than the timeline of events and

sometimes depending on what we know about cultures and what is the sort of interesting focus of

cultures. Sometimes you're looking for the things within a culture that have made a difference and sometimes that can be the actions of a ruler

and sometimes that could just be the innovations of the culture. So for example we're

looking at things like the examination process and how that affected

song China and certainly the porcelain production is notable. Many of the aspects of shipbuilding and finance, those sorts of things

that are notable changes and things that sometimes, certainly in the Western world,

we can be a little bit pompous about our own place in the world. We sometimes think that we invented

everything in the Western world and then we forget just how advanced that Asian cultures, even if they're in the Far East or in the Middle East,

we forget about that and even like in India innovations were

taking place there that the Western world would gain from and while the European cultures were all trying to beat each other up,

sometimes some of the Asian cultures were getting ahead of the game really. So it is really important to get everything

into perspective and it's interesting to see how these Asian cultures contributed to the world that we live in today.

So they're not always the most popular episodes I think because the demographic of our audience is mainly focused around the Western world and so it's

natural for us to be interested in our own specific histories but when you piece together the entire story

of the history of the world it's fascinating to see what else was going on elsewhere in other

continents of the world other than Europe and the Americas for example.

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