S1:E20 – Mauryan Empire Unites India then Disintergrates
Episode Notes Chandragupta conquers an Empire // Ashoka tries to Run it - a kinder and gentler empire
6 Sep 202124min
S1:E19 – Buddha, Trauma and Your 8 Fold Path
6 Sep 202137min
S1:E18 – Indian Subcontinent - Ancient Geography, War and Culture
Episode Notes Size and geography break up the Subcontinent's cultures // The Indus must control the Mountains (or Pakistan must Control Afghanistan) // Apartheid that works - Caste system keeps kids ...
6 Sep 202147min
S1:E17 – Collapse of the Roman Empire: War, War, More War
Episode Notes Civil War // Weak Emperors // No Talent in the Senate // Military Dictators // The Horsemen and Vikings of the Apocalypse, Vandals at the Gates.
6 Sep 202148min
S1:E16 – The Reforms of the Early Roman Empire
Episode Notes Octavian-Augustus wins and kills the Republic // Welfare, the Army, the Government all Change - sometimes for better, Sometimes for Worse.
6 Sep 202146min
S1:E15 – Dignity, Inequality, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
Episode Notes How did the Roman Republic collapse just a few generations after its great victories? // Inequality of Imperial Wealth + Lack of Dignity for Ordinary Romans + Lack of Government Reform. ...
6 Sep 202144min
S1:E14 – Rome Surrounded and Unleashed: How War Created the Republic
Episode Notes The Political Geography of Italy // Rome Surrounded // Endless War and the Invention of the Republic // Women and Citizenship and Independence // Carthage, Hannibal and the War for Contr...
6 Sep 20211h 14min
S1:E13 – The Greeks at War with Persia and then Themselves and then the Edge of the World
Episode Notes The Persian Wars // The Rise of Athens and its Navy // The Insurance of the Delian League // The Mobster Rule of the Athenian Empire // The Great Violence of Democracy and Slavery // The...
6 Sep 20211h 14min
