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 to another history of the world

podcast unscripted with me Chris Hasler and here we are continuing our little break between volume so volume three we

finished about a month ago now and volume four is in the pipelines hopefully

we'll get to start that maybe in a month or two.

And until then we're just broadcasting a weekly catch-up where we're just

focusing mainly I think on subjects that we maybe didn't cover

so we're doing informal episodes about societies that we didn't cover or aspects of

the classical world that we didn't really look at in too much detail.

And then also we're introducing some sort of spoilers for volume four so that you can get a taste of what's to come. Now in a couple of

weeks ago I did introduce the the subjects for the first European

podcast of volume four so initially we're going to be focusing on the rise of

the Islamic states, calipates and certainly the Arabs and the and the

Turkic peoples who came to dominate the lands of Southwest Asia.

But then also we need to look closely at the Byzantine's

and also the societies of Europe, which grew up out of the remnants of the Romans and their

barbarian enemies and when we look at this we're going to be looking at some of the formation of the earliest societies of

Frankish lands, so the precursors to what would be France and the Anglo-Saxons of what would become England.

Also, the successor states of Italy, such as the Ostragoths and the Lombards and also we spoke of the Visigoths who were very much

a mainstay in Spain after being deposed from French lands.

But also this culminated as well when

when the people of Asiatic lands actually took Jerusalem and turned it into an Islamic city.

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