The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine. Oh, you know, you know. Hello everyone welcome to the history of the world

podcast magazine and this week we're going to be exploring events that

changed the world so we're going to be going right back in history to some of the earliest times talked about during this

podcast so for our first trip back into history I want to go back to the very first episode of this podcast way back in 2018 when we first started this whole journey and we spoke of an asteroid impact which basically shaped the world

to create the environment where humans could evolve eventually.

The asteroid responsible for the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs and many other species on Earth

is officially known as the Chixilob Impactor. In summary the Chixilob impacter forever altered Earth's history

marking the end of the age of dinosaurs

and reshaping the's ecosystems.

So we begin our story of the history of the world

66 million years ago.

There were no humans in existence.

In fact, many of the modern animals that we know and love

had not yet evolved.

There was even no such thing as grass, for even that had not yet evolved. The map of the world looked different. Africa was separated from Asia and India

was a continent all of its own floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

I have had a go of creating a map which gives a rough idea as to what the world looked like back then.

And you can see this map by going to the website, History of the World Podcast.com

and going to the volume one link.

You can certainly recognize the modern continents,

but there are some very distinct differences.

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