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This is the History of the World Podcast with me, Chris Hasler.

And this is the History of the World Podcast, Unscripted. Oh, Hello again. Welcome to another unscripted episode of the History of the World Podcast

just to explain the reason why we're doing unscripted episodes at the moment

is because we've finished volume 2 and we're preparing for the

start of volume 3 and we normally take a break of a month or two between volumes but we just don't want to disappear we want to

still be podcasting each week and sending something out into the podcast world

so that you can keep up with the progress of the podcast and be sure

that we haven't disappeared off into the sunset somewhere never to return.

Just a quick progress report on volume three. It's coming along well. We should be ready by mid-December hopefully and

We're going to be exploring the Persian empires and kingdoms throughout the classical age and

so we're going to be looking at when the Assyrian empire fell and the period of time between that and the rise of the Arab Islamic

peoples who took over the

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