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History of the World podcast

China: Tang Dynasty (debrief)

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

History

4.8971 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A discussion on the source material used for the Tang Dynasty episode, plus a brief look at what's ahead in 2024, plus some information about the challenges of writing chronological medieval history and pronouncing words in different languages that you have no knowledge of.

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0:00.0

This is the history of the World Podcast Illuminati De Brief.

0:05.0

I've created some weird music have and I over the years. What happened to the good old days?

0:17.5

Volume 1 where we had a nice theme tune. We've gone off and made some really bizarre stuff haven't we so like but maybe I'll

0:24.8

have to concentrate on volume five making that a good intro music I think though, though,

0:33.7

we're going to be like, so 2024 I think is going to see the conclusion of volume

0:40.4

4 so it will at the current pace it will run for the rest of 2024 we've got a

0:48.1

number of topics still to talk about we're very close now to discussing the Mongol Empire and Chingis Khan.

0:58.9

We'll be looking at Marco Polo's travels as well. That's another interesting story.

1:04.2

The innovation of gum powder, of course,

1:07.4

we're still living with the consequences

1:09.2

of the creation of gum powder on a global scale.

1:14.7

Then we'll be going to Southeast Asia and the South Pacific

1:19.2

and looking at the early or the medieval kingdoms of Indochina and Austronesian expansion, the Maori of New Zealand,

1:29.6

Easter Island.

1:31.6

Before we go to the Americas at the conclusion of 2024 and look at some of the

1:40.3

pre-Columbian cultures, the cultures that are directly pre-Columbian of South America, middle America,

1:50.0

Central America and North America.

1:53.4

But then also, before we do anything else

1:56.7

in terms of going forward in the volumes,

2:00.1

there are aspects of sub-Saharan Africa that are really starting to become important during the medieval period.

2:07.0

So we have to introduce the African continent.

2:10.0

And so we'll be looking at staying in volume four for the rest of the 2024

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