History of the World podcast

By Chris Hasler

What's History of the World podcast about?

The incredible story of the human history of the world. Come and join us on this incredible journey! This is the History of the World podcast!!!

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History of the World podcast episodes:

04.08.2024
The Battle of Legnica (debrief)
Looking into some of the books used for the construction of this episode, plus a closer look at the Hejnal and some chit chat about a new bookshop opening near HOTWorld podcast HQ and some redecorating scheduled. --- Send in a...
04.08.2024
Vol 4 Ep 72 - BATTLE - The Battle of Legnica ( 1241 )
1241 - Simply speaking, this battle is a part of the story of when the Mongols tried to conquer Europe. Hear how the tactical expertise of the Mongols measured up to a European army. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
04.05.2024
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 5th April 2024
EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (3) - For your listening pleasure we will be revisiting the founding of the city of Carthage, the introduction of the Ancient Olympic Games, the founding myth of the city of Rome, the accession of...
03.25.2024
The Mongols, Part Two (debrief)
Our usual look back at the source material for the episode alongside a description of the approached required to write such a wide ranging episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
03.25.2024
Vol 4 Ep 71 - The Mongols, Part Two
1227 - 1635 - The death of Genghis Khan meant that his descendants would have to share the spoils of the massive empire that he had created. The culture of leadership that he created meant that the Mongols would influence...
03.22.2024
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 22nd March 2024
EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (2) - This week's magazine takes us on a journey from Ancient Egypt to the biblical Levant, starting with Akhenaten, before speaking of Ramesses II, Moses and Kings David and Solomon of Israel. --- Send in...
03.11.2024
Genghis Khan, Part Two debrief
Our regular look at the source material for the episode, with a look forward to future volumes and branch outs for the podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
03.11.2024
Vol 4 Ep 70 - PROFILE - Genghis Khan, Part Two
1206 - 1227 - In 1206, Genghis Khan was accepted as the leader of the Eastern Steppe tribes and all societies in the known world started becoming targets for the Mongols. Genghis Khan was very successful, but why was this?...
03.08.2024
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 8th March 2024
EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (1) - We go way back in history to explore the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, the completion of the Great Pyramid, the creation of the Akkadian Empire, the law code of Hammurabi and the...
02.26.2024
Genghis Khan, Part One (debrief)
Our usual look at the source material which although is in abundance, can still lead to confusion in piecing together the exact sequence of events. Plus some news about the Podcast Show 2024. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
02.26.2024
Vol 4 Ep 69 - PROFILE - Genghis Khan, Part One
1162 - 1206 - This is actually the story of Temüjin, a young boy born of noble stock, and outcast following his father's death. We track Temüjin's incredible rise from humility to grandeur, and find out how he became Genghis...
02.22.2024
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 22nd February 2024
GREAT JOURNEYS - We explore some of the great journeys, some fruitful, others fruitless. Hannibal's famous trek across the Alps, Zhang Qian's discovery of the Silk Road, the Viking establishment of Kyivan Rus' far from their homeland and the People's...
02.12.2024
The Battle of Zhongdu (debrief)
A deeper look into the source material used for the podcast and an addition to the website which will help all HotWorlders access information about those sources quickly and easily. Plus, its the end of an era for the History...
02.12.2024
Vol 4 Ep 68 - BATTLE - The Battle of Zhongdu ( 1215 )
1215 - The Mongols led by Genghis Khan attacked the Jurchen Jin Dynasty of northern China in a battle where patience and tactics would be matched up against a more highly developed city and society. --- Send in a voice message:...
02.08.2024
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 8th February 2024
MASTERS OF WAR (2) - We travel back in time to the 4th Century BCE and the tension filled world of the Greeks and Persians, where the greatest military commanders needed to be truly great to prevail. Featuring Epaminondas, Philip...
01.29.2024
The Mongols, Part One (debrief)
A look at the source material for the first Mongol episode, alongside an acknowledgement of how history can change somebody's name such as that of Genghis Khan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
01.29.2024
Vol 4 Ep 67 - The Mongols, Part One
1130 - 1214 - Many of us have heard stories regarding the Mongols and their empire, but how much do we know about their origins and how could a peoples with their humble origins have the ability to terrorise developed...
01.22.2024
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 22nd January 2024
MASTERS OF WAR (1) - Looking back at some of the greatest military commanders and leaders in history. This week we review Egyptian Pharoah Ramesses II, Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser III, Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great and Athenian General Themistocles. ---...
01.15.2024
China: Song Dynasty (debrief)
Our usual look at the source materials that we used for this week's episode, including a look at how Chat GPT has come in useful for targetting important information on the worldwide web. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
01.15.2024
Vol 4 Ep 66 - China: Song Dynasty
907 - 1279 - The story of the Song Dynasty takes us from the fall of the Tang Dynasty through to the conquest of China by the Mongols. We will take a closer look at the imperial examination process, innovations...
01.08.2024
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 8th January 2024
HUMAN ANCESTORS (2) - We pick up from our last magazine episode and track the story of human ancestry from the emergence of the neanderthals and the first Homo sapiens, through to the events that left Homo sapiens as the...
01.01.2024
Vol 4 Ep 65 - China: Tang Dynasty
581 - 608 - Originating from the unifying Sui Dyansty, the Tang China brought back the glory of an affluent and united Chinese nation for the first time since the days of the Han Dynasty. Overexpansion and a large diversity...
01.01.2024
China: Tang Dynasty (debrief)
A discussion on the source material used for the Tang Dynasty episode, plus a brief look at what's ahead in 2024, plus some information about the challenges of writing chronological medieval history and pronouncing words in different languages that you...
12.25.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 25th December 2023
HUMAN ANCESTORS (1) - In this episode we will be going right back to the very beginning, looking into the first upright walkers, then the australopithecines, homo habilis, homo erectus, hand tool construction, fire production and homo heidelbergensis. --- Send in...
12.18.2023
Vol 4 Ep 64 - Korea: Silla and Goryeo
668 - 1392 - The period following the Three Kingdoms period was a time for Korea to be unified on and off, but still there were many outside influences trying to conquer the resource rich peninsula. This would also bring...
12.11.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 11th December 2023
UNLIKELY VICTORIES (2) - In this edition of the magazine we look back at some of history's victories in battle against the odds. Clontarf (1014), Legnano (1176), Rio Salado (1340) and Agincourt (1415). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
12.04.2023
Vol 4 Ep 63 - Three Kingdoms of Korea
8000 BCE - 668 CE - Before Korea was unified by the Kingdom of Silla in the seventh century, a number of polities vied for position both in and north of the Korean peninsula, overseen closely by the societies of...
11.27.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 27th November 2023
UNLIKELY VICTORIES (1) - In this edition of the magazine we look back at some of history's victories in battle against the odds. Salamis (480BCE), Zela (47BCE) and Edington (878) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
11.20.2023
Vol 4 Ep 62 - The Ashikaga Shogunate
1333 - 1573 - We march forward in our Japanese story from the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate as we recognise the rise of a new shogunate which would see challenges to its authority consistently throughout its tenure. --- Send...
11.16.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 16th November 2023
This week's journey back in time will take us to the iconic Crusader Battle of Arsuf, the apogees of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Roman Empire and to the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
11.02.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 2nd November 2023
This podcast episode of the magazine takes a closer look at Ötzi the Iceman, the Roman Emperor Vaspasian, the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in the United States and the Ayyubid Sultan, Saladin. There is also a "state of the...
10.16.2023
Vol 4 Ep 61 - Kamakura Japan
1185 - 1333 - The Kamakura period of Japanese history saw a time when a military regime took control of the nation, and were subject to the first international invasion of the Japanese islands. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
10.09.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 10th October 2023
Join us on this busy little tour of history where we will be visiting the pre-historic village of Çatalhöyük, the affluent times in the middle of the second millennium BCE, the Battle of Actium which directly involved the famous Egyptian...
09.26.2023
Vol 4 Ep 60 - BATTLE - The Battle of Dan-no-ura ( 1185 )
1185 - Tension between the clans during the Heian period of Japanese history was reaching boiling point particularly after the Taira clan had expelled the Minamoto from the capital city of Heian-kyu (Kyoto). The result was the outbreak of the...
09.16.2023
Vol 4 Ep 59 - Heian Japan
794 - 1180 - We are covering the period of Japan's history from the relocation of the capital city to Heian-kyō up to the outbreak of the Genpei War. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
09.05.2023
Vol 4 Ep 58 - Ancient Japan
40000 BCE - 794 CE - We haven't studied Japan in too much detail until now, so it is necessary for us to introduce the story of the islands from the very beginning. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
09.01.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 1st September 2023
This week's magazine episode takes us back to pre-historic Europe when modern humans met the neanderthals, ancient Mesoamerica where we encounter the Olmecs, Classical Rome where we study the early years of the life of Julius Caesar, and the story...
08.21.2023
Vol 4 Ep 57 - The Delhi Sultanate
1206 - 1526 - After the Ghurids crossed the Khyber Pass, Islam fast became a major religion of the Indian subcontinent, adding to the cultural diversity of these lands, but would this change be short lived or permanent? --- Send in...
08.16.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 16th August 2023
In this week's episode we look back on the mysterious Mitochondrial Eve, the mysterious Xia dynasty of ancient China, and the not so mysterious Battle of Carrhae between the Roman Republic and the Parthian Persian Empire. --- Send in a voice...
08.08.2023
The Cholas (debrief)
Any opportunity for everybody to enjoy a debrief episode where we talk in further depth about the experience of making this episode and some of the sources used to get it done. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
08.08.2023
Vol 4 Ep 56 - The Cholas
848 - 1070 - From humble beginnings in the far south, the Chola initially took advantage of territorial expansion before taking to the seas and establishing more power away from mainland India. This episode plots the rise and fall of...
07.30.2023
SPECIAL - Historiography
This episode essentially talks about the history of history writing, and what history writing has meant for the wider world over the timelines of history itself. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message
07.25.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 25th July 2023
In this week's magazine episode, we will be looking at what chimpanzees can teach us about how our ancestral species communicated with each other, we will be examining the artistry of the Indus Valley Civilisation, and we will be looking...
07.18.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 18th July 2023
In this week's magazine we look back at Europe as the Western Roman Empire fell, the Battle of Cannae when Hannibal's Carthaginians met the Romans in battle, the fantastic story of the Trojan War, and how to make your own...
07.10.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 10th July 2023
In this episode, we'll be looking back at the paleoanthropologist Eugene Dubois; the relationship between the Mycenaeans and the Minoans; the incredible journey of Hannibal across the Alps; and the rise and fall of the Macedonian Empire. --- Send in a...
07.03.2023
SPECIAL - The History of Thailand
The complete journey from the beginnings of human occupation right through to the aftermath of the death of King Rama IX, and everything in between. We explore the reasons why Thailand has such a unique identity but also how it...
06.26.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 26th June 2023
The History of the World podcast is five years old, so we go back and listen to an excerpt from the first ever episode, as well as looking at the modern evolution of writing, the enigmatic King Pyrrhus of Epirus...
06.19.2023
SPECIAL - Easy Company
1942 - 1945 - Easy Company were such a closely knit unit of men, that they have been referred to as a "band of brothers", a phrase inspired by the writing of William Shakespeare. Follow the Second World War story...
06.12.2023
SPECIAL - Elizabethan Sea Dogs
1532 - 1624 - With the advent of transatlantic seafaring came the opportunity for Spain to become great. Queen Elizabeth I of England wanted to limit Spanish power and so she would grant her greatest naval commanders a free reign,...
06.05.2023
The History of the World podcast Magazine - 5th June 2023
Unscripted (52) - In this episode of the podcast, we look back at the day of the Battle of Hastings in England in 1066, the incredible geoglyphic creations of the Nazca cultures of Ancient Peru, the amazing life of the...

What's History of the World podcast about?

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History of the World podcast episodes:

The Battle of Legnica (debrief)

Vol 4 Ep 72 - BATTLE - The Battle of Legnica ( 1241 )

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 5th April 2024

The Mongols, Part Two (debrief)

Vol 4 Ep 71 - The Mongols, Part Two

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 22nd March 2024

Genghis Khan, Part Two debrief

Vol 4 Ep 70 - PROFILE - Genghis Khan, Part Two

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 8th March 2024

Genghis Khan, Part One (debrief)

Vol 4 Ep 69 - PROFILE - Genghis Khan, Part One

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 22nd February 2024

The Battle of Zhongdu (debrief)

Vol 4 Ep 68 - BATTLE - The Battle of Zhongdu ( 1215 )

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 8th February 2024

The Mongols, Part One (debrief)

Vol 4 Ep 67 - The Mongols, Part One

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 22nd January 2024

China: Song Dynasty (debrief)

Vol 4 Ep 66 - China: Song Dynasty

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 8th January 2024

Vol 4 Ep 65 - China: Tang Dynasty

China: Tang Dynasty (debrief)

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 25th December 2023

Vol 4 Ep 64 - Korea: Silla and Goryeo

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 11th December 2023

Vol 4 Ep 63 - Three Kingdoms of Korea

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 27th November 2023

Vol 4 Ep 62 - The Ashikaga Shogunate

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 16th November 2023

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 2nd November 2023

Vol 4 Ep 61 - Kamakura Japan

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 10th October 2023

Vol 4 Ep 60 - BATTLE - The Battle of Dan-no-ura ( 1185 )

Vol 4 Ep 59 - Heian Japan

Vol 4 Ep 58 - Ancient Japan

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 1st September 2023

Vol 4 Ep 57 - The Delhi Sultanate

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 16th August 2023

The Cholas (debrief)

Vol 4 Ep 56 - The Cholas

SPECIAL - Historiography

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 25th July 2023

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 18th July 2023

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 10th July 2023

SPECIAL - The History of Thailand

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 26th June 2023

SPECIAL - Easy Company

SPECIAL - Elizabethan Sea Dogs

The History of the World podcast Magazine - 5th June 2023