Greco-Persian Wars

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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The Greco-Persian Wars refer to the series of conflicts between allied Greek City-States and the Persian Empire in the 5th century BC. In popular culture, it’s painted as the war to that saved “Western Civilization” from the decadence of the east. Despite being outnumbered, the Greek Hoplites outperformed the Persians on the battlefield due to their discipline and superior fighting skills. The problem with this narrative, is that history is written by the victors. Most of the source material we use when studying this conflict comes from highly bias Greek historians. Today, we dive into the Greco-Persian Wars as told by Herodotus and attempt to filter out some of his exaggerations. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brohistory Episode #177 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Michael Medved.
0:02.0	Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, once said that God offers special protection
0:08.4	to drunkards, lost dogs, children, and the United States of America.
0:14.6	We'll explore that special protection
0:18.1	and what it means in the American miracle.
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0:45.0	What's going on guys?
0:48.0	Welcome to another episode of Bro history.
0:50.0	It's Henry Zamoda and my good friend Danny of Delgebar.
0:53.8	Happy New Year, man.
0:54.7	How are you?
0:55.5	Happy New Year, chilling, man.
0:57.3	As per usual, how about yourself?
0:59.8	Doing pretty well.
1:00.8	I can't really complain. I'm glad we're doing a historical
1:06.2	podcast on a day where nothing at all politically is happening. Nothing that I
1:11.3	can think of. A very slow period politically. Right now it's about 10 PM Eastern Standard time on Wednesday, the, what is it, the fifth or the sixth January 6th there's nothing there's
1:26.4	absolutely nothing going on politically as we record this podcast right now so
1:31.7	I guess that means there's nothing to really talk about going
1:35.1	on in a political landscape so we can just skip right ahead and and talk about what we were
1:39.6	planning. Well actually there is one thing that I can bring up and that is that it looks like Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce from Kaniya West.
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