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A Short Walk through Our Long History

I think that if you want to understand the world we live in today, it helps to understand the important events of history. In this series, we are going to look at major events, people, documents, places, books, and ideas that have shaped history, and thus shaped our modern world.

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Episode 10 - The Peloponnesian Wars

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/12/02

Episode 10 - The Peloponnesian WarsHi, my name is Clayton Mills. Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. This is Episode 10 - The Peloponnesian Wars. The Golden Age of Greece, which we focused on last episode, lasted from around 528 BC to 323 BC, and it was a time of great prosperity in Greece. And that very prosperity brought about some inter-city rivalries, as the

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Episode 9 - Athenian Democracy and the Golden Age of...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/12/01

So what made it golden? What made it a classic? Well, there were two ascendent cities during this time, Athens and Sparta. They both were incredibly prosperous, and both laid claim to be the leading city in Greece. They fought several times during this period, and we’ll talk about those battles in the next episode. But what really made this time period unique was all of the stuff going on in Athens during this time. So the Golden Age of Greece is really a mostly Athenian thing, even

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Episode 8.1 - Ancient Greek Military Strategy

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/11/12

Episode 8.1 - Ancient Greek Military StrategyHi, my name is Clayton Mills. Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. Welcome to Episode 8.1 - A side trip to look at ancient Greek military strategy and weapons. Specifically hoplites and triremes. I’ve mentioned that ancient Greece wasn’t that large of a place, and they weren’t as populous as some of the other larger

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Episode 8 - The Persian Wars

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/11/08

Episode 8 - The Persian WarsHi, my name is Clayton Mills. Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. Welcome to Episode 8 - The Persian Wars. We’re talking today about the ancient wars between Greece and Persia. I’ve mentioned that Greece has had an important impact on the western world, but did you know that ancient Greece was almost wiped out? A couple of times?

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Episode 7 - The Kingdom of Israel

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/11/04

Episode 7 - The Kingdom of IsraelHi, my name is Clayton Mills. Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. Welcome to Episode 7 - The Kingdom of Israel. Back in Episode 5, I mentioned that Israel had an outsized influence on the history of the Western world, considering its size and significance in Ancient history. If you were able to go back in time to the ancient world,

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Episode 6 - The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Trojan War

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/10/29

Hi, my name is Clayton Mills. Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. Welcome to Episode 6 - The Iliad and the Trojan War. One of the most famous events of the ancient world is war between the Greeks and the Trojans, which is told in the epic novel the Iliad, and then finished in the Odyssey. Funny thing is, we don’t know for sure if this war really happened

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Episode 5.1 - The Development of Written Language and...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/10/27

Episode 5.1 - The development of written language and literacy[intro music]Hi, my name is Clayton Mills. Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. Welcome to Episode 5.1 - The development of written language and literacy. Next time, we’re going to be taking a look at one of the great stories of the ancient world - the Iliad. But before we get dive into that, I wanted to

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Episode 5 - Early Greece and the first City-states

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/10/23

Welcome to Episode 5 - Early Greece and the first City-States. Last time, we looked at one of the great civilizations of the ancient world - Egypt. Our modern culture was not all that directly influenced by Egypt, though you could say our modern culture was very influenced by the Israelites that came out from Egypt. It’s interesting to me that a small, relatively powerless, backwater nation as Israel was for most of its existence, had such a profound effect on the western world. One

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Episode 4 - The Gods of Egypt and the Law of Moses

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/10/21

Welcome to Episode 4 - The Gods of Egypt, and the Law of Moses. Today we are going to look at one of the more important, and durable, civilizations of the ancient world - Egypt…While most of the world was living in tents and small towns, scraping out a meager existence, Egypt started building huge cities of brick and stone, with massive monuments and even pyramids. Did you know that the Great Pyramid at Giza was the tallest building in the world for over 3800 years? It shows their

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Episode 3 - The Biblical Creation Narrative

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/10/21

Hi, my name is Clayton Mills. Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. Welcome to Episode 3 - The Biblical creation narrative. Today we’re going to take a closer look at the creation story that’s found in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. The story in Genesis is very different from the other creation narratives of the ancient world, in tone, content, and

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Episode 2 - The Creation Narratives

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/10/14

The creation narratives of the ancient world, including the biblical book of Genesis, were written in part to answer both of these questions: Why are we here? And also, ‘Why is life so hard?’ People in the ancient world had to wake up too, and they probably asked that same question, especially on school days. Many ancient cultures had creation stories that sought to answer why the world is the way it is. Why does the world exist? And, Why is life so hard? We’re going to look at some

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Episode 1 - Understanding the Present by...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2021/08/21

An introduction to the ideas of this podcast, and an overview of where it's going. Also, I talk a bit about tyranny. Which is a bad thing, generally.

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