Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

By Tanner TateEducation
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Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened episodes

  • Mohenjo-Daro
    Beneath the fertile plains of Pakistan lies a mysterious city discovered in the 1920s that rewrote much of what we thought we knew about humanity's history. Who were they? Why were they there? Why did they leave? We may never know. In the fourth chapter of the Quarantine Chapters, we investigate one of the most mysterious settlements ever discovered: Mohenjo-Daro.
    16 min
  • The Plague of Justinian and the Black Death

    In the third episode of the Quarantine Files, we're exploring the Bubonic Plague, and the cause of it: Yersinia Pestis. In the years between 1347 and 1351, nearly 30% of the world population was killed by a microscopic bacteria that spread through much of the planet, but how long has that bacteria been around? 

    19 min
  • The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906

    On an early morning in April of 1906 in the Bay Area of California, a 7.9 earthquake rattled the city of San Francisco. Residents were shaken, but it was nothing they couldn't handle. Unfortunately, that was only the beginning of their problems. What happened in the biggest catastrophe in San Francisco history? Let's find out, in the second episode of the Quarantine Chapters.

    19 min
  • Christopher Columbus and the Fall of the Byzantines

    The first episode of the Quarantine Chapters, we take a swim in the Mediterranean and examine the events that transpired causing the accidental Spanish discovery of the American continents. How does the Byzantine Empire, once the Eastern Roman Empire, fit into all that? Well, it plays a bigger part than you might think by way of the Butterfly Effect.

    19 min
  • The Space Race
    Starting after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union went bonkers with firing rockets into space. What happened? Let's figure it out.
    26 min
  • Smoke Over Tiananmen Square, 1989

    We're going to travel to China in 1989, where a democratic movement ended in a brutal crackdown, followed by one of the most successful government cover-ups in recent history. What happened? Let's dive in.

    27 min
  • Port Sydney and the First Fleet

    Why did the British colonize Australia? When did it happen? And why did they send convicts? A brief crash-course on the events that led to the European colonization of what we now know as Australia, then called New South Wales.

    19 min
  • The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Did the actions of one 19-year-old Serbian Nationalist lead to the deaths of more than 16 million people? How did it happen? WHY did it happen? Today we take a quick crash course on one of the most pivotal events of the 20th century -- the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

    19 min
  • Black Tuesday

    What happened during the Stock Market Crash of 1929? How does the Stock Market work? How did one day set off a chain of events leading to the Great Depression? I'm gonna give you the down low. Let's ride.

    15 min

About Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

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Tanner likes to talk about history and find threads that pass through everything that has ever happened. If you wanna listen, you can.