This is the History of the World Podcast Illuminati Debrief.

Hello everyone, welcome to the history of the world podcast

Illuminati debrief and this week we're joined by all of the Hot Worlders for a change.

So this, we're all together again, we're all together.

So normally this is exclusive

for those

subscribers who listening to the bonus material of the podcast but this week we've opened it up to everyone. Now for those of you who've never

listened to a debrief episode before we simply explore some of the source material and a little bit of my experience of writing this

week's episode. Now this week's episode was on the Cholas of India and of course

the Cholas were a long-standing dynasty of India but

specifically they became an imperial force during those few centuries of the medieval period. So we explored that and we explored

the fact that they came from relatively humble beginnings and eventually became a really

sort of a wide-ranging imperial force having a lot of influence over the

southeast Asian Peninsula so really quite a long way from

their homelands. India are a very difficult subject to write about during this period because it's such a complex

fabric and a patchwork of kingdoms and dynasties all controlling little bits and pieces. So not an easy episode to write and not an easy region of the world to study. There's a lot of fragmentation, a lot of

dynasties coming and going, a lot of nations coming and going and

going and powers emerging and then disappearing.

So it almost reads like a very sort of, you know,

you could even say a very boring list of dynasties or a boring list of kings and that but I mean that's

unfortunately the nature of what we have access to so we're talking about inscriptions on temples when we're talking

about the cholas as well so you get a kind of a lack of characters in these episodes there's, you know, there's no king who really

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