Tides of History
Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.Listen to Tides of History on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to bonus episodes available excl...
Episodes (382)
The Peloponnesian War, Part 1: Plague, Attrition, and a Decade of Bloodshed
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The Athenian Empire and the Coming of the Peloponnesian War
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What Made Classical Greece Special? Interview with Professor Josiah Ober
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Warlords, War, and Society in Early Rome: Interview with Professor Jeremy Armstr...
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Classical Greece
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Carthage, Syracuse, and the Battle for Sicily
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The Archaeology of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Professor Camer...
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The Rise of Carthage
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The Mediterranean World in 500 BC
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Why Do Ordinary People Do Terrible Things? Daniele Bolelli and Patrick Discuss
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The Buddha and His World
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Climate Change and the Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Dr....
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The Rigveda and the Dawn of the Iron Age in South Asia
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The Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization
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The Rise of China's Warring States
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Ordinary People in Ancient East Asia: Interview with Professor Kate Pechenkina
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Confucius and His Age
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China in the Eastern Zhou: Spring and Autumn
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Venice through the Ages, from Salt-Panners to Maritime Empire to Tourism: Interv...
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The State and the Environmental History of Early China: Interview with Professor...
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The Western Zhou, 1046-771 BC
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The Fall of the Shang Dynasty and the Rise of the Zhou
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The Rise of the State in China
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The Languages of Eurasia around 500 BC
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Cities, the Etruscans, and Global Urbanism: Interview with Professor Simon Stodd...
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Did Justinian Restore the Roman Empire or Ruin It? Professor Peter Sarris on the...
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The Scythian World
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The Iron Age Steppe and the Emergence of the Scythians
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The Greco-Persian Wars 4: Plataea and the Aftermath
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Cutting-Edge Archaeology on the Eurasian Steppe: Gino Caspari on the Scythians
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The Greco-Persian Wars, Part 3: Athens in Flames and the Battle of Salamis
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The Greco-Persian Wars, Part 2: Xerxes and the Invasion of Greece
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The Greco-Persian Wars, Part 1: The Ionian Revolt to the Battle of Marathon
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Thinking Like a Persian King: Professor John Hyland on the Persian Perspective o...
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Persia Ascendant
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Midas, Croesus, and the Lost Kingdoms of Iron Age Anatolia
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The Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Judah: Interview with Professor Avraham Fa...
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Cyrus the Great and the Rise of the Persian Empire
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Theocracy, Fragmentation, and the Kushite Kings: Egypt after the New Kingdom
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The Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Destruction of Jerusalem
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The Rise of the Persian Empire: Professor Matt Waters on Ancient Empires and Cyr...
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Summer Book Club: Dr. Keith Pluymers on Indigenous America
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The Iron Fist of Empire and the Destruction of Israel and Judah
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The Roots of Israel and Judah
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Headhunting, Migration, and Ancient DNA in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Profe...
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Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor...
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The Last Kings of Rome and the Foundation of the Roman Republic
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The Hallstatt Culture, the Celts, and the Rise of the European Iron Age
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Burial Urns, Warrior Chiefs, and the Origins of the Celts
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