History for Beginners
By Petrus Groenewald
Categories: History
History for Beginners Every year since 1 CE, from everywhere. There is no year zero. The calendar jumps from 1 BCE to 1 CE, and this show starts there, with one episode for every year. In 9 CE a regent named Wang Mang takes the Han throne in China, and on the other side of Eurasia three Roman legions vanish in a German forest. The same year, the same world. Each year is told as Births, Events and Deaths, and the wider world gets as much room as Europe. Conflicts and political entities follow the year they explain, so a revolt or a dynasty arrives just when you need it. Where the sources are
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- Empires & Kingdoms 02 - Rise and Ruin of Western Han China
From Liu Bang's victory in 202 BCE to Wang Mang's takeover in 9 CE, the Western Han built a bureaucratic empire, fought the Xiongnu, opened the routes to Central Asia, produced Sima Qian's history and counted nearly 60 million people in the census of 2 CE. This overview covers how the dynasty was…
- Empires & Kingdoms 01 - How Rome Built the Modern West
How a city-state's republic became an empire spanning the Mediterranean, from the title of Augustus in 27 BCE to the division of the empire in 395 CE. This overview covers the origins in myth and republic, the transformation under Augustus, the legions and provinces, the economy of grain, coin and…
- Conflicts 01 - Why Rome Failed to Conquer Germania
Rome's long attempt to push its frontier from the Rhine to the Elbe, from the first crossings in 12 BC to the punitive campaigns of Germanicus in 14 to 16 CE. Tiberius reaches the Elbe in 5 CE and a Roman fleet sails to Jutland, and then a forest in 9 CE changes the plan.Conflicts is a companion…
- Year 03 - Wang Mang and the Blood Omen
A bottle of blood. A mansion door in Chang'an. A plot to frighten the most powerful man in China with an omen. It fails, and it costs the regent Wang Mang's own son his life. We also meet the births of Ban Biao, who began the Book of Han, the general Geng Yan and the astrologer Balbillus. In…
- Year 02 - Succession Crises
Augustus has two grandsons groomed to inherit the empire. In the year 2, one dies at eighteen on his way to join the army in Spain, and a man who left Rome years earlier is allowed home. Also in this episode: a Parthian king and his mother who allegedly took the throne by poison, a Han census…
- Year 01 - What Really happened in Year 1 CE
Nobody alive in the year 1 knew it was the year 1. The numbering was devised centuries later, and there is no year zero. In this first episode we meet three notable births (the Roman power broker Burrus, the convert king Izates II of Adiabene and the physician Scribonius Largus) and follow Rome's…
- History for Beginners Intro
History for Beginners IntroPrehistory for Beginners: https://open.spotify.com/show/3oTD4Dm7qqwjVtKEQUDON6Ancient History for Beginners:https://open.spotify.com/show/6ep0A0b4ACmLo2PrKZ4gIo
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