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Episode: 234: The Aztecs
Season 1 Episode 234
In this episode, we take a look at the Aztecs as they are commonly known or the Mexica as they are correctly known. The Mexica ruled a flourishing, c…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 233: Painting with a Broad Brush
Season 1 Episode 233
Today we cover what we can in terms of Mayan political history. The Maya organized themselves into essentially what we might call city-states. These …
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 232: The Maya
Season 1
Today we really switch gears. Before we explore the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca civilizations, we have to set the stage. Long before those…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 231: Suleiman's Final Years
Season 1
In our final episode on Suleiman the Magnificent, he nearly completes his conquest of the Mediterranean and Iran. Meanwhile, succession issues threat…
2 years, 11 months ago
A Woman's Life
Season 1
In this bonus author interview, I sit down with Historian Felicia Kornbluh and discuss her most recent book: A Woman's Life is a Human Life. This obj…
3 years ago
Episode 230: Ottoman High Tide
In this episode, we follow Suleiman as he leads the Ottoman Empire to its territorial height. After teaming up with the intrepid Barbarossa, Suleiman…
3 years ago
No Right To An Honest Living
Season 1
In this bonus author interview, I sit down with Historian Jacqueline Jones and talk about her latest book: No Right to an Honest Living. The book det…
3 years ago
Episode 229: Ottoman Menace
Season 1
Last time Suleiman the Magnificent came to the throne and immediately threw himself at the west. Before two years were out Belgrade and Rhodes were b…
3 years ago
Episode 228: Suleiman the Magnificent
Season 1
Having covered the period between the Fall of Constantinople and 1520, we can now get into the most famous Ottoman Sultan of all: Suleiman the Magnif…
3 years ago
Episode 227: Sultan of the Faith
Mehmet II's death leads to a brief power struggle between his two sons: Bayezid and Cem. In the end, the Janissaries pick Bayezid and Cem finds himse…
3 years ago