Episode (200)
Halaman 12 dari 20
Why Do Ordinary People Do Terrible Things? Daniele Bolelli and Patrick Discuss
Mar 14, 2024History is littered with terrible deeds and atrocities: conquest, genocide, mass enslavement, forced displacement, crimes of all sorts. Why do people agree to participate in these actions? Daniele Bol...
The Buddha and His World
Mar 07, 2024The Buddha - born Siddartha Gautama - is one of the most impactful people in human history, founder of a religious tradition that has shaped the world for the past 2,500 years. But the Buddha was also...
Climate Change and the Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Dr. Alena Giesche
Feb 29, 2024The world's climate isn't stable, but how can we understand climate change in the past? Dr. Alena Giesche is an expert on ancient climates, and she explains both how the field of paleoclimate studies ...
The Rigveda and the Dawn of the Iron Age in South Asia
Feb 22, 2024The Rigveda, a collection of hymns written in the Sanskrit language more than 3,000 years ago, is the oldest religious text in the Hindu tradition. It's also an incredible window onto life at the dawn...
The Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization
Feb 15, 2024The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the most enigmatic, sophisticated, and compelling ancient societies. For seven centuries, it thrived in the western portions of South Asia, building enormous mu...
The Rise of China's Warring States
Feb 08, 2024The Warring States period in China (c. 481-221 BC) was an era of mass-mobilization warfare unlike any other the world had seen to that point. Armies of hundreds of thousands of men fought on an increa...
Ordinary People in Ancient East Asia: Interview with Professor Kate Pechenkina
Feb 01, 2024Professor Kate Pechenkina is an expert on the bioarchaeology of East Asia, utilizing cutting-edge tools to tell us about the lives and experiences of ordinary people in the distant past: diet, disease...
Confucius and His Age
Jan 25, 2024Confucius is one of the most famous and influential thinkers in all of human history, but who was he? What did he believe, and what did he teach? And how did his time and place - the closing years of ...
China in the Eastern Zhou: Spring and Autumn
Jan 18, 2024The Spring and Autumn period, lasting from 771 to 481 BC, marked the high point of aristocratic power in ancient China. This was an age of nobility and political fragmentation, as the Zhou Dynasty's p...
Venice through the Ages, from Salt-Panners to Maritime Empire to Tourism: Interview with Professor Dennis Romano
Jan 11, 2024Venice's lagoon is an unstable environment, but it has hosted one of the longest-lasting and most stable cities in world history. The history of Venice is many different things: politics on an imperia...