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 …
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 …
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? …
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 …
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* …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
