Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Episode 19. The Mongols - Terror of the Steppe (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2024-11-22 14:23:31 +0000 UTCThank you to everyone for your patience in waiting for a new episode. It has been a crazy year, with starting a family and looking after a newborn. But this episode has been an absolute joy to work on. It's the story of easily the most momentous event of the middle ages - the uniting of a steppe people who swept out of the Mongolian plateau in every direction, and changed the course of history.
To this episode I've brought readings in Mongolian, Arabic and Chinese, as well as the mesmerising music of Batzorig Vaanchig, the virtuoso of Mongolian folk music, and a master of throat singing. I think it gives the episode a really unique sound. It will be coming to general release in the coming weeks.
Thank you as always for all your support - and I hope you enjoy the new episode.
PART 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116508165
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Fall of Civilizations Podcast
Thank you Boyd! I am near the end of my second pass on the video, so it should be out sometime in March.
Boyd Flavell
We are so spoilt thank you so much. I know it would be an absolutely monumental task producing the video for this but any indication on the release? Honestly for a history nut these documentaries are hands down the best (dan carlins hardcore history is pretty close), soooo looking forward to your future projects 🙌
Wayne Dawson
It was fascinating learning the actual history of Ghengis Khan. I didn't know there was much other than the quotation I read "The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters." In this far bigger picture, it helps me understand some of the motivations and the way of thinking. I'd still say that, ultimately, the Mongols were a pestilence and their behavior that of barbarians. Nevertheless, the true story is nuanced, and I see that not all of the faults are on the part of the Mongols. Between my study of the history of Russia and China (not all that deep), I had mostly encountered the voice of those oppressed by them. My Russian teacher had said that they left nothing behind, but I realize with the current situation with Putin that maybe they did; their politics. It occurs to me that perhaps "Hun" is derived from "Khan".
