Year 04 - Imperial Succession Crises
From History for Beginners · 00:21:39
Show by Petrus Groenewald
Augustus has now lost both of the grandsons he spent years preparing. In the year 4, Gaius Caesar dies of a wound taken at a fortress in Armenia, and four months later Augustus adopts two people on the same day: the stepson he let walk away to Rhodes and a young grandson he does not trust. We meet the births of the agricultural writer Columella, the Korean king Daemusin and a baby whose father will lose three legions. We also follow Parthia's change of king, a Han wedding staged as a public petition, Silla's founder, and the death of the man who built Rome's first public library.History for Beginners covers history one year at a time, starting in 1 CE. Each episode has births, events and deaths, with as much attention to the rest of the world as to Europe. Where historians disagree or the evidence is thin, the episode says so. The voices are AI-generated. This series is mainly for my own education, and I am sharing it for anyone who wants to follow along. Spotted an error? Tell me.
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- History for Beginners Intro
- Year 01 - What Really happened in Year 1 CE
- Year 02 - Succession Crises
- Year 03 - Wang Mang and the Blood Omen
- Conflicts 01 - Why Rome Failed to Conquer Germania
- Empires & Kingdoms 01 - How Rome Built the Modern West
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