Hello again, my friends, the time travelers. As always, it's lovely to have you with me.

Otherwise, it would be ever such a lonely journey to do all on my own. I know or I get great comfort from knowing that there are so many people out there who share my appreciation, I suppose, of history and what it can can do for us that apart from being an

endless library of of fascinating tragic uplifting, informative, moving stories. It also serves as a resource of human experience and

in times of trouble, in dire straits, I say it's worth looking back at what happened to people in the past when they were confronted by some of the same challenges.

You can see what they got wrong, you can see what they got right.

At the very least you can reassure yourself that some of them survived. Some of them came

through to the other side of the war or the plague or the natural

disaster or the political incompetence or the tyranny. You can see that people find

a way through the woods. So that's why I do this and that's why it's a delight to share it with others of like mind curious inquiring people with questions they want answered. So I just want to say thanks

to everyone who shows their support by subscribing to my Patreon.com site. The financial contribution from there makes possible everything

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I become part of the family. You don't just have to listen to me. It's a community of shared ideas. Now it's time to get back to the history of the world,

so strap yourselves into the time machine, recorder, microphone and action. A tiny sect amongst countless others, the small fellowship of Jews watch their leader die on a wooden cross.

They believe he comes back to life three days later.

Their claim goes on to form the foundation for a religion. Outliving the mighty Roman Empire

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