From a World of Iron to Classical Empires

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Iron Age, and to a new season of Tides of History! The first millennium BC saw the emergence of two huge and enduring empires at either end of Eurasia - Rome and China - but it was also the time of Socrates, Confucius, the Buddha, and much more. Let's start getting settled in a brand-new world.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:16.8	The breeze carried the scent of salt, seaweed, and rotting fish inland from the harbor.
0:21.9	Goals cawed from their purchase.
0:23.9	Searching out the fishermen's discarded waste and crusts of bread left behind by the steve doors and sailors.
0:30.0	The birds cries competed for space on the breeze with the myriad sounds of human activity.
0:34.5	Feet pounding on the dots, the buzz of conversation punctuated by the occasional yell.
0:39.2	The creaking of ropes as the ships roaded anchor, and the axles of carts squealing as their beasts of burden pulled them up the hill.
0:46.5	A crash cut through the dip, the clinking of ceramic fragments hitting the ground as the vase shattered into pieces.
0:52.4	Another followed, then enough, till the sound of breaking pottery practically overrode every other sound.
0:58.0	The hubbub stopped as the crowds of people around the docks turned and cramed their necks to look for the source of the disturbance.
1:04.0	Their eyes and ears stopped on a placid ox who had run its massive shoulder into a cart,
1:09.2	steadily upsetting the vehicle until it spilled its load of pottery onto the dirt and cobbles.
1:14.4	The ox was unbothered by the slow motion collision, dropping its head to munch on some grass by the side of the path.
1:21.3	The same couldn't be said for the red-faced driver of the cart, who was screaming obscenities of the impassive animal and the man accompanying it.
1:28.3	The ox's owner screamed right back at it, gesturing with his hands.
1:31.4	What were you doing in the middle of the road, this expression asked?
1:34.2	Why weren't you doing a better job of guiding that dumb creature, came to reply?
1:38.0	But I either understood much of what the other was saying.
1:40.2	The cartors spoke only a smattering of the drovers Latin tongue and the drover grasped not a word of the cartors Greek,
1:45.8	nor the punic language of Carthage to which he turned next.
1:49.9	Eventually, the ox's owner pulled its lead onward, it soaps crunching on the finely painted pieces of the cartors load,
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