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

And this is the History of the World Podcast Unscripted. The Hello. Hello everyone welcome once again to another history of the world

podcast unscripted with me Chris Hasler and this is the usual thing that we do between volumes is

publish a weekly episode of unscripted and unrelated stuff so we can just keep in touch with one another.

It's going to be another couple of months before the fourth volume of the

podcast is officially launched. But this week I thought I would go back to introducing one or two spoilers related to the material

that you can expect to here in volume four. Now a couple of weeks ago I did introduce the fact that we would be

introducing the the rise of the Islamic Caliphates and the timeline of the Byzantine Empire until their ultimate convergence

at the fall of Constantinople where one would survive and one would not.

But of course the Islamic world,

started by Arabs, the actual conflict between the Byzantine's

and the Islamic world was actually the Turks.

So the Turks came in and pushed the Arabs out and they were actually the ones who came into direct conflict with the Byzantine's on that fateful day in 1453.

But of course, that also bypasses somewhat another very important time for the

Turkic Muslims when they had to defend Jerusalem from Christian Crusaders and that happened

before the fall of Constantinople.

So after we've done the the timeline of the Byzantine's,

we're going to go back to European history and that will ultimately

converge with the Crusades. So in getting to that point we have to bring Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire

right up until the 11th century. So initially we'll be picking up the story from where we left it in volume 3.

So we saw that Southern Europe was dominated by Gothic peoples and they were the main beneficiaries of the fall of Western Rome,

with the Visigoths taking advantage of their opportunities in Iberia

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