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Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

Thomas Preston Floyd

The goal of this project is to document the history of humanity by documenting all of humanity’s attempts to defeat it’s greatest foe. Itself. This is not going to be a straightforward documentation of kings fighting and destroying each other, though there will be many mentions and examples of that. This will attempt to explain our subjects from the ground up. The common foot soldiers to the leaders at their head. Their strategies, tactics, weapons, and technologies. Their triumphs and tragedies

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40:13

Northern Africa West of the Nile

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/07/22

This week we finish up our coverage of Africa. We go over a couple of points about Set I forgot to mention. I go into some etymology of places and peoples. I talk about the importance of oases as the Sahara desert expanded. I also go over the proto-Amazigh people and the cultures they're associated with that existed during this season's time line 6000-4000 BC(E). Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/Q3Ohfb_vE3o

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40:58

God of Order and the Gods of the Order

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/07/15

This week we're back and continuing to talk about Egyptian Mythology. A little earlier than theses versions of the myths may have existed during this season's time frame as there are some elements of society that we don't have a record of existing just yet, but the ideas of a cosmic order affecting the lives of humans and leadership struggles between family can't have been unheard of by this point. YouTube:https://youtu.be/l7jWFEIdTxATwitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod

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35:33

The Creations of the Egyptian Gods

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/07/01

This week we dive into ancient Egyptian creation myths... or some of them. The gods that were mentioned in these and the concept of natural order Ma'at.Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/CruwFshiDIk

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42:32

The Red Land and New Cultures

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/06/24

This week we talk about the eastern desert and the goods that are starting to be sourced from the area. We also talk about the culture doing the sourcing as well as a couple of other cultures emerging between 6000-4000 BC(E) Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/K8pi3MRq0rY

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41:25

Nubia and The Foundations of Kush

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/06/17

This week we jump ahead to talk about terminology used by the Egyptians about the regions and peoples to their south. We also talk about the site that will become the city of Kerma and the beginning of the Kingdom of Kush. We also check back in with the site of Nabta Playa and it's potential ties to Egyptian, Kushite, and other Nubian cultures. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/d-CCmZqYW5o

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35:32

The Highlands and the Sea

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/06/10

This week we talk about the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages and the peoples of the Horn of Africa as well as their proto states and interactions with Egypt and Arabia. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/nDuDvnf5F2o

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31:52

The White Nile, African Great Lakes, and the Omo

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/06/03

This week we discuss the Eburran culture and it's interaction with a pastoralist groups coming into African Great Lakes Region from the Nile and Horn of Africa. We also discuss said pastoralists and who their modern descendants may be. We also start covering peoples living in the Horn itself. Specifically the Omotic speaker's ancestors. YouTube: https://youtu.be/TUnwirIORrYTwitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod

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26:16

Lake Chad

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/05/27

This week we talk about the importance of Lake Chad. The origin of that name. The arrival of pastoralism and the importance of fishing in the region. We discuss the establishment of small scale trade that will eventually grow much larger. We also discuss the interaction between the various ethnolinguistic groups living in and around the region. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/1H5lj38mVTc

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31:49

Lake Chad and The Headwaters Of the Nile

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/05/20

This week we move to the peoples living around Lake Chad, the eastern Sahel, the southern Nile, and its tributaries between 6000-4000 BC(E) and the expansion of pastoralism and agriculture. We also go over the idea of a macro Nilo-Saharan language and some of the pushback and criticism that got. We talk about the etymology of the Nile and Chari rivers. Next week we will focus on specific sites sites seeing evidence of agriculture and pastoralism in the region. Twitter/X:

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43:15

Small Advances and Small Branches

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/05/13

This week we finish this season's coverage of West Africa. I talk about the delay in the adoption of agriculture in the region, and the future expansion of textiles, cloth, and leather production and styles. We also talk about some of the smaller branches (potentially) of the Niger-Congo Language Family including the Dogon and their religion. X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/-7P-kInG2us

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32:51

West African Hunter Gatherers, the Round Head Period,...

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/05/06

This episode was a little shorter than I would have liked thanks to some technical issues, but that didn't stop me from talking about the West African Hunter Gatherers that inhabited places like Shum Laka. We also started to touch on the Niger-Congo language family and how branches of it are starting to spread. Particularly Mande (Though it may be a separate language family) and it's probable connection to the Round Head Period of the Savannah and how the desertification was affecting its spread

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36:45

Central Africa and it's Gatherers

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/04/29

This week we talk about the ancestors of Central Africa's Pygmy peoples. We discuss why they may have evolved their shorter stature and their potential social organizations and what we know of their languages. We also discuss the all encompassing importance of the forest to them and what role music played in this importance. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/JH499Nil6XQ

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42:37

Neolithic South Africa and Pastoral East Africa

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/04/22

I return this week after a very frustrating experience last week to talk about the ancestors of the modern Khoi and San peoples and some of the reasons that these peoples haven't had to change as quickly as those living in other regions. I also dive into some discussion about hunter gatherer warfare or conflict and what the differences between that and settle warfare were.Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod

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45:47

Early Urban Infrastructure and Features

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/04/08

In our last Urbanization special for season 4 we talk about the first major urban sites in Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, and what we know and don't know about them at this early date. We also talk about why these areas were ahead of their neighbors in seeing cities form. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:https://youtu.be/0etj839Fa3E

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44:39

The City and The State

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/04/01

This week we take a look at some older views of cities and their origins from Plato and Aristotle and compare them with the criteria we discussed last week. I also talk about some feedback about cities in the US and my home state. X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodTwitter: https://youtu.be/XsmZniUlZyA

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38:56

Urban Revolution?

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/03/25

!! Apologies for the sound mixing. My theme song's volume would not mix in at a lower volume than the episode audio !! This week we're reviewing V. Gordon Childe's 10 criteria of a city and the issues with them. We're also reviewing etymology of smaller sedentary settlements and going over their sizes (at least in an English context) and equivalents in hunter gather societies.Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/dzQCQq3KKKY

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43:13

The Birth of Metallurgy

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/03/18

This week we're talking about copper, gold, meteoric iron, and the methods that were used by humans to manipulate and shape these elements. We also discuss the evolution of the concept of a copper age.Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/C1jZ09bkdDs

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25:06

Pig Domestication

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/03/11

This week we finish this season's animal domestication episodes by talking about Sus domesticus, or pigs. X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/fi8aSGRzre4

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46:07

Camelids and Chickens

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/03/04

This week's domestication episode talks about the Camelids including the Bactrian Camel, Vicuna, Guanaco, Alpaca, and Llama. As well as the Chicken and its primary ancestor the Red Jungle Fowl. Also we fight some technical difficulties.Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/9LDCcef0jIY

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32:57

Bees and Beasts of Burden

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/02/26

This week we move over to our first animal domestication special for this season. In it we talk about Donkeys and Bees. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/E6fI2cZ4BSU

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