Trans-Saharan Trade: Taghaza's Salt Houses, Mali Gold and Camel Caravans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rock art in the Ahaggar Mountains dated to about 3500 to 2500 BCE shows a green Sahara with hipp...
23 Okt 23min
Texas Revolution: Come and Take It, the Alamo and the Runaway Scrape
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mexico, with only about 3,500 non-native residents in Texas in the 1820s, encouraged immigration...
23 Okt 20min
House of Stuart: Scottish Stewards Who Took Three Crowns, Then Lost Them
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The House of Stuart began with Alan fitz Flaad, a Breton who had been hereditary steward to a bi...
23 Okt 22min
Byzantine Empire's 1,000 Years: Theme Soldiers, Greek Fire and Galata
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The empire later labeled Byzantine never used that name: its people called themselves Romaioi an...
23 Okt 21min
Carthage Without Rome's Filter: Dido's Oxhide, the Cothon and the Tophet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!According to legend, the Phoenician queen Dido, also called Elissa, fled her brother the king of...
23 Okt 24min
Punic Wars in Full: The Corvus, Cannae, Zama and Carthage's Last Siege
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 264 BC Rome was a land power and Carthage a thalassocracy ruling Mediterranean trade from mod...
23 Okt 25min
Roman Roads: Bedrock Trenches, the Groma and a Daylight Ban on Carts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rome's road network ran over 250,000 miles, about 50,000 of them paved in stone. Around 450 BC t...
23 Okt 20min
Roman Currency Debasement: Silver-Washed Denarii to Diocletian's Price Caps
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rome began striking silver coins in 269 BC near the temple of Juno Moneta, the source of the wor...
23 Okt 24min
