Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Friends, we’ve done it. We’ve reached the final episode of Season 1: The Big Picture of World History. Let me tell you, my original plan was to make six episodes. Six. One for each era in …
Category: Season 1: World History
World History Ep. 16: 20th c. Middle East or, “Who knew religion was so important to people?!”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Think about the Middle East. They’ve been controlled by Persia, Alexander the Great, the Romans, the Caliphates, the Ottoman Empire, and now the European mandate system. The last 60 years have been the first opportunity various …
World History Ep. 15: Decolonization, or “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today we’re going back to the 20th century and Decolonization, or as I like to call it, “Don’t Let the Door Hit You On The Way Out”.So remember about how WWII discredited the idea of empire? …
World History Ep. 14: The Cold War in Latin America, or “This is why they hate us there!”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today, let’s look back through that same time period in Latin America. This is a region where the Cold War heavily influenced their politics and attempts at true independence. Latin America was a collection of Spanish …
World History Ep. 13: The Cold War or, “I Must Break You, WOLVERINES!”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today, we’ll look at the new global system that gets set up in the wake up European empires. The U.S. gets obsessed with containing things, we go to space (allegedly), China gets Mao-ed, and *spoiler alert* …
World History Ep. 12: World War Two, or “Who was supposed to be watching Germany?!”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today, we’ll talk about the war that was directly caused by the War to End All Wars. Talk about irony. The world gets depressed, Hitler rises, and everything falls apart. Act 1: The Depression Act 2: …
World History Ep. 11: World War I or, “The War to Cause All Wars”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today we’re going to look at World War I, or “The War To Cause All Wars!” There will be acronyms, accidental hijinks that get an archduke killed, trench foot, and a really pissed off Germany. That …
World History Ep. 10: The Modern Era in the East or, “Knock Knock. It’s the West.”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Last time we explored the Age of Imperialism in Africa, India and the Pacific. The West was able to successfully conquer most of the world through its advanced technology and ruthless superiority complex. But now they’re …
World History Ep. 9: The Age of Imperialism, or “Allow me to ruin the Jungle Book for you”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today we’re going back to the Age of Imperialism, or as I like to call it, “Allow me to ruin the Jungle Book for you.”. To be clear, this is going on at the same time …
World History Ep. 8: The Modern Era in the West, or “You Say You Want A Revolution?”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today we’re going back to the Modern Era in the West, or as I like to call it, “You Say You Want A Revolution…”. We’ll look at political revolutions and talk about why George Washington was …