06 - Ploughin’ Forward

06 - Ploughin’ Forward

The last few episodes have focused heavily on the “Game of Thrones” layer of history; that’s to say, nobles killing each other. As exciting as it's been, only a tiny minority of people who lived around the end of the first millennium of the Common Era would have been directly concerned with those kinds of conflicts. For most people in the lowlands, it didn’t matter who their count or duke or emperor was. For them, life was nasty, brutish and short, and involved an overwhelming amount of backbreaking manual labour. But an agricultural revolution was about to change life for these peasants forever. So let’s keep ploughin’ forward with the History of the Netherlands. Show notes: https://www.republicofamsterdamradio.com/episodes/historyofthenetherlands/episode-6-ploughin-forward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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