Antonine Wall: Rome's Turf Frontier, Painted Distance Slabs and Grim's Dyke
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Twenty years after Hadrian's Wall was finished, Emperor Antoninus Pius, a ruler who rarely left ...
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Umayyad Caliphate: Abd al-Malik's Gold Dinar, the Jizya and a Death Banquet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Banu Umayya were Mecca's wealthy Quraysh trading elite who, led by Abu Sufyan, fought the Pr...
23 Okt 23min
Seleucid Empire: Babylon's Grain, Temple Looting and the Circle in the Sand
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC with no adult heir, his generals carved up hi...
23 Okt 22min
Han Dynasty: Xiongnu Tribute, Wang Mang's Flood and a Bronze Seismometer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Han dynasty ruled China from 202 BC to 220 AD and gave its name to the Han people and Han ch...
23 Okt 26min
Prince Henry, Never Called Navigator: Templar Funds, Tuna and Cape Bojador
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Prince Henry of Portugal, born in 1394 as the third surviving son of King John I and Philippa of...
23 Okt 21min
Pontiac's Rebellion 1763: Detroit's Foiled Ambush and a Stickball Ruse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Seven Years' War ended French power in the Great Lakes and Ohio country, General Jeffe...
23 Okt 24min
Nixon vs Khrushchev Kitchen Debate: A Lemon Squeezer and a Split-Open House
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Under the 1958 U.S.-Soviet cultural agreement, the Soviets opened an exhibition in New York in J...
23 Okt 20min
Matthew Boulton: Re-Imported Buckles, Coal Royalties and Cartwheel Pennies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Matthew Boulton was born in Birmingham in 1728, a landlocked town that specialized in small meta...
23 Okt 24min
