This is the history of the world

podcast Illuminati debris from a very very cold hot World Studios and the problem being that this entire

this entire area is getting redecorated.

All the radiators have been taken off the wall and the spring evenings and mornings are very, very fresh in the UK at the moment. And as such, what's going

on is I'm sitting in the middle of this room with all of the furniture away from the walls so I'm like

stuck in the middle of the room huddled in between empty bookcases and desks and sofas and I'm basically sitting with layers of

clothes on because I'm freezing cold and this is the circumstances in which I am broadcasting to you now and in which I have

broadcasted the last episode, the Battle of Ain Shaloot. What an interesting episode, bringing together so many elements of our story and of our medieval story, I say so because we're focusing on China at the moment

it spilled over into the Mongolians and or the Mongols I should say the Mongol Empire and it's brought us

back to Europe and the Middle East and by coming into the Middle East we go back to the Arab world which

we were exploring right at the very beginning of this volume, volume 4 and also we touch upon the Crusader states or as they are otherwise called

Ultramer to give them their French name as they're often considered to be Frankish realms. Their origins was

thanks to the Franks. And we look at how all of these elements tie it together in this fascinating story.

We also look at this strange historical state of the Mamluks which is not an ethnic state but more a status state so the Mamluks not actually being

an ethnic group being a name that the Arabs gave to their slaves.

And we can almost see this somewhat in a lot of things to do with the Middle East a bit like status.

So I refer to the Franks being the the fundamental element of the crusader state.

So they were referred to as Frankish.

But in fact, it wasn't just Franks.

It was people from all over Christian Europe were contributing towards

Utramair and the Crusader state. But in the same token the Christian

realms were referring to the Muslims as Saracens, regardless of

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