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This is a bonus episode that just talks about the approach and process I take to tackling a particular topic, specifically our upcoming podcast series on Alexander the Great. If you're a fan of the show you might have wondered about how I even go about building a podcast series on a particular person, time or place. This process is the topic of this meta episode discussing researching and building my series on Alexander the Great.

Rest assured each topic is heavily researched well ahead of the scheduled release. Many articles are reviewed, books are read, and I take my content from the works of actual historians, archeologists, professors of history, etc... or from people who are themselves referencing the works of other established historians, professors, and archeologists.

Building this podcast is about much more than just the dates and events of history. It's about the emotion and feeling of that time and place. We can all have something we can grasp a hold of and reference as we explore the times and events of history. Building that feeling is an important part of what makes this podcast experience unique.

As we get ready to kick off our brand new series on the life of Alexander the Great I struggled personally with finding some emotion or experience from Alexander's life that I could personally understand. He led a very brief and violent life, and yet was driven by some force to keep conquering long past the original goals of the invasion. What pushes someone to lead a life of eternal war? What could push someone to the point of their entire army of devoted followers ready to mutiny against their king?

How I pick this theme, and approach finding and building that emotion and experience is explored in this Meta Episode about the process of building my podcast series on Alexander the Great.

Enjoy and see you in 2024.

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This Part 3 of a three Part Series exploring the destruction of the Tower of Babylon in Mesopotamia (Modern Day Iraq). In this episode we explore the rise of the Assyrian Kingdom to power within Mesopotamia, the Bronze Age Collapse. Next we review what the tower of Babylon looked like based on existing accounts, and finally explore the text of the Warhammer 40K universe and see how close that text is to our own history and see if there's any clues in there to give us an exact time to tie the Emperor of Mankind to an actual historical figure. Finally we go through 1600 years of history where we note all the major times the city of Babylon was sacked and potentially involved the destruction or raiding of the Temple of Marduk inside Babylon.

The Emperor of Warhammer 40K's lore could potentially have been one or more of many possible kings who sacked Babylon and its temple.

Can a Piece of Glass give us the vital clue we need to answer the question of "Who was the Emperor when the Tower of Babylon was destroyed?"

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This is Part 2 of a two part bonus episode with special guest host Laura from the Chaos Divided Podcast who joined me to talk a little history and a little Warhammer 40K fiction as we go through the Top 10 Historical Figures the Emperor of Mankind Might Have Been as chosen by fans of the 40K fiction. This episode is a rundown of the Top 3 of the list as we discuss each in depth and then discuss our own optional bonus pic.

Thank you very much to fans of the show so far and this show would not be possible without your interest.

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In celebration of reaching 1000 downloads on our podcast I wanted to engage with the fans of our season 1 topic (the fiction of Warhammer 40,000 and history). I also wanted to step away from the grimdark podcast tone for a couple of episodes and have a little fun.

To thank all the fans who have supported the podcast so far I anonymously reached out to the 40KLore sub-Reddit and just asked the question "Who's your favorite historical figure the Emperor of Mankind Might Have Been?" To help get the answers flowing in the post I suggested 4 significant historical figures with 2 suggestions being conquerors and empire builders and 2 suggestions being more philosophical and softer thinking influences.

With over 350 responses to the question I took the top responses from the fans, put it into an online poll, and again engaged with everyone on Discord, Twitter, and the various Warhammer 40K subreddits asking people to now vote from the list of historical figures they suggested, "who did they feel was most likely to have been the Emperor of Mankind?"

Joining me as we go through the Top 10 list as chosen by you, the fans of 40K lore, is Laura Whitehead co-host and co-creator of the Chaos Divided podcast which discuss all things 40K with a light hearted and wholesome tone that will leave you smiling after every episode. Please check out their podcast everywhere you get your pods https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/chaos-divided-warhammer-40k-podcast/id1686139450

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In this episode we imagine the experience of an every day person inside the walls of a city during an ancient siege. The experience could really belong to anyone of any time, but we begin our exploration of Babylon, Mesopotamians, and the destruction of the Tower of Babel by experiencing the ancient siege of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II during his second and final siege of the city in 589-587 BCE in which the city, and its temple were razed to the ground and entire population dispersed or enslaved.

The complete destruction of a city and dispersement of its population either through forced relocation or enslavement was rare, but not entirely unheard of. With the Babylonians themselves having experienced this almost 100 years earlier. But before we get there, we start here.

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For this Episode we go deep into the culture, life, and religious practices of the Bronze Age Minoans building the context of the civilization and their relationship with the Mycenean Greeks at the time. We discuss their art, architecture, history, relationship to bulls, naval and military technology before drawing interesting perspectives of what it might have felt like to be a mainland Greek trading on their first trip to the island of Crete picking up some goods.

Then we go into detail on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur before reviewing the Warhammer 40K connection of Ollanius Pius as both an Argonaut and prince of Athens (Theseus) and explore what the text and lore of the Warhammer 40K popular fiction universe tells us about Ollanius' experience. We then draw some conclusions about just how absolutely horrible Daedalus is based on the context of Warhammer 40K and what we know about Deadalus from Theseus and the Minotaur and other Greek Myths.

Minoan Pottery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_pottery#/media/File:AMI_-_Oktopusvase.jpg

Also, please check out Friend of the Show Chaos Divided Podcast who have a weekly podcast discussing all things wholesome and great about the Warhammer 40K hobby.

Chaos Divided Podcast: https://linktr.ee/chaosdivided40k

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In this episode we live through a fictional imagining of the final day of a Minoan Trader as they experience the real life Theran mega-tsunami that destroyed most of the island of Thera (now modern day Santorini). We inhabit their daily ritual, life, food, clothing, profession and family, as they get ready to leave for a multi-day trip to Athens with a multi-ton load of trade goods in their boat just as the Thera volcano caldera collapses creating one of the largest eruptions and resulting tsunamis in human history.

We take two local Warhammer players typically within the Halifax, Nova Scotia area and pit their armies against each other in a 2000 point battle using the most recent version of Warhammer 40k: 10th Edition! We also do special live events like RTT’s and GT’s!

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To kick off our Bronze Age review of Warhammer 40K we start with a big picture review of the Bronze Age in general, major societies, developments, its interconnectedness. We want to provide some context to the greater world ahead of diving into our two major focuses for this age (Minoan Greece, and Babylon) in up coming episodes.

I do not do justice to a proper description of the beauty and level of craftmanship in the Mold Cape from Bronze Age Wales and promised to link to it in this description.

Mold Gold Cape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold_gold_cape

If you are ever in London, please stop by the British Museum to see it, and encourage them to send it back to Wales where it belongs.

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