The Common Factors That Cause Societies To Die, From Viking Greenland to Modern Somalia

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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If we do not learn from the past, we're ultimately doomed to repeat it. While our society may not be on the decline just yet, everything eventually must come to an end. Sandwich Board guys with raggedly clothes are on to something, I guess? As a...

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1:00.0	History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.
1:09.0	It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.
1:15.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
1:17.0	Where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.
1:24.0	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:39.0	There's one topic I'll always be able to go back to on the show in case I'm out of ideas is the collapse of the civilization.
1:46.0	Civilizations can die for any number of reasons and I've done episodes on all these different ways.
1:51.0	It can happen in one day as a result of a major military defeat.
1:55.0	Like what happened to the Byzantine Empire against the Ottomans on May 29th, 1453.
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