Great Big History Podcast

By Dr. Christopher Gennari

Lecture style Podcast covering Ancient History to Modern world events.

We Cover War and Art

Philosophy and Education

Great Pyramids and Great Walls and why they work (and why they dont)

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How many episodes does Great Big History Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 132 episodes available.

Great Big History Podcast episodes:

November 01, 2017 027_HIS101_China Geography
China Geography and Imperial History
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23min
November 01, 2017 026_HIS101_Buddhism
Buddha, the Four Truths and the 8 Fold Path
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35min
November 01, 2017 025_HIS101_Mauryan India
India Unites Itself and Buddhism Spreads.
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20min
November 01, 2017 024_HIS101_Indian Geography and Early Civs
the geography on the Indian Subcontinent and the early Aryan Civilization.
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49min
October 22, 2017 022_HIS101: The City on Seven Hills Edition: The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire in all its glory changed the way people thought about everything from glory, to government, to themselves.
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46min
October 22, 2017 021_HIS101: What Cicero Knew Edition: Collapse of Roman Republic
The Roman Republic died in a conversation between a rich man who wanted glory and an unemployed ex-soldier who wanted dignity. 100 years of fire and blood destroyed the senate, the republic, got cicero-cato-pompey-caesar-cleopatra-marc antony killed and left only Octavian standing.
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17min
October 22, 2017 020_HIS101: The Roman Legion and Early Conquests
The Roman Legion used the sword, shield and discipline to turn the roman farmer into perhaps the best soldier of the ancient world
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39min
October 22, 2017 023_HIS101: Weak Enough to Lose the World: Collapse of Roman Empire
The Only thing that could destroy a roman army or a roman civilization were romans. Starting in 180 AD they did so - and it still took them 300 plus years to finally tear it all down to the point forest barbarians and horse nomads could push over the rotten tree.
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17min
October 17, 2017 019_HIS101_When in Rome Edition_Roman geography and politics
Divisions of Italy between Gauls, Etruscans, Latins and Greeks determined much of Rome's future. Here we discussed how Rome dealt with being surrounded and how it ended up creating the Republic.
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37min
October 13, 2017 018_HIS101_greek philosophy
Episode Notes
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle Oh My!
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43min

FAQs about Great Big History Podcast:

How many episodes does Great Big History Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 132 episodes available.