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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris. And this is the history of the world unscripted. Oh, Welcome once again to this unscripted episode of The History of the World Podcast, which we're publishing

just due to the fact that we're not actually writing podcasts at the moment, and the next proper episode is going to be coming out next week on the 28th of October

and it's going to be concentrating on the development of metal work and the discovery of metal so something to

look forward to next week. This is just my means of catching up with you letting

you know I'm still here and that the History of the

World Podcast is still very much active. Generally speaking the History of the World

Podcast is a project that I want everyone to be involved in and we're here 24 hours a day,

seven days a week pretty much so we have a lot of social media presence.

So we've got the History of the World Podcast blog which you can go to.

I try to publish as many maps as possible to support the story so that it can give you a visual aid to the

areas and places that we're talking about. Also we're on Facebook so you can go to

the Facebook page and see what's going on in the history of the world

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