The History of the World podcast Magazine - 21st April 2024

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (4) - Continuing our popular series, we explore the stories of the Greek statesman Solon and Cleisthenes, Cyrus the Great liberating the Jews from Babylon, the enlightenment of Prince Siddharta which led to him becoming the Buddha, and the exile of the last king of Rome, Tarquin the Proud.

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0:00.0	The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.
0:18.0	Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine. Oh, yeah. Hello everyone. Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine in the midst of chaos here at the Hot World
0:56.8	Studios.
0:59.5	We've got the decorators in, so it's an absolute it's an absolute mess here so I've had to just set up a temporary
1:09.0	Attemptly broadcasting set up and just go for it
1:16.0	This week we're going to continue what we've been doing for the last three magazine episodes and looking at great events in history. I
1:22.1	think this has been quite a good little series and I've got five more
1:26.3	events to focus on what we do. We look at these events and then go back into the archives of the History of the World
1:34.0	Podcast and find out some things from broadcasts of yester year basically. So we're going to be dipping back into the
1:47.4	archives of the History of the World Podcast. Last time we were talking a lot about sort of the ancient world really the
1:58.6	beginnings of Greece ancient Greece and Rome. We was looking at the begins of Rome and some of the biblical
2:08.3	stories of the Middle East. This week we're going to look a little bit more closely
2:15.3	as some of the events have followed that period sort of in the middle of the
2:19.1	first millennium BCE. The first one we're going to look at is the development of Greek society, recorded Greek
2:28.0	society, what we really know as ancient Greece and a lot of it began in Athens so we're going to focus a little
2:35.3	bit on Athens we're going to look at some of the the statesman of Athens. We're going to start this week with Solon, the renowned Athenian
2:49.9	statesman and poet who implemented significant constitutional and judicial reforms around 594
2:59.4	B.C. These reforms were a response to the conflict between the landed aristocracy and the
3:08.6	peasantry in early 6th century Athens. Solon's reforms aimed to address economic inequalities,
3:18.0	enhance the Athenian economy,
3:22.0	and create a more inclusive political structure.
3:25.0	His legacy continues to shape our understanding of early democratic governance in ancient Athens.
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