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

And this is the History of the World Podcast Unscripted. The A very warm welcome to some more unscripted history of the world

podcast with me Chris Hasler and we're just between volumes at the moment.

Volume 3 is complete and volume 4 is coming later in the year.

And in the meantime, we're publishing some unscripted episodes just to fill those gaps, a weekly

unscripted, somewhat off-the-cuff chat about anything and everything, especially spoilers for volume 4, which is what I'm

going to go back to this week. Now we have already spoken briefly about some of the topics that will be

covered during volume 4 such as the rise of Islam and the Arabs and how they grew to become one of the most dominant

peoples of the world and subsequent caliphates that were joined by the Turkic peoples and certainly the European cultures such as the Byzantine's who played a great part in this sort of crossover from classical cultures to medieval cultures and then also the emergence of

European countries such as the ones that we know more about today such as France and England and

certainly what happened to the remnants of the Roman Empire and their barbarian

neighbors and how they developed into the peoples that we are more

familiar with in terms of medieval history and certainly the formation of more countries that we can recognize on today's

map and how religion such as Christianity and

and certainly establishments such as the Papacy

and the Holy Roman Empire became

a key part of that transition and development of medieval Europe.

We're also going to be discussing the Crusades as we've already mentioned and that key period in world history

and especially with its attachments to religion as well.

So we're going to be looking very closely at that, but also

we're going to be concentrating on the next period of Indian history after the fall of the Gupta empire.

And we're not going to be covering that in too much detail because it was so

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