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Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations & Future World Predictions.

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An auditory journey through history; From ancient civilizations to futuristic visions, our host guides you through immersive narratives, blending facts with fiction to explore what it means to time travel through the human experience. Music by https://www.youtube.com/ Sound effects by https://www.voicy.network/ Music and Sound Effects by https://pixabay.com/ Donate patreon.com/THO420 Music and SFX https://archive.org/ Sources: https://www.britannica.com/ https://www.nationalww2museum.org/

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00:20:54

Mongols Part 10: Temüjin Didn’t Have a Choice

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/12/22

History often portrays the Mongol Empire as driven by blind brutality or personal ambition. That’s a lie.In this episode, Cullen breaks down why Temüjin didn’t build the Mongols because he wanted power; he built them because the system he was born into was designed to kill him. The steppe was a failed state. Loyalty meant nothing. Food meant survival. Violence was constant and random. And kindness got you killed faster than weakness.This episode dives into Temüjin’s early betrayals, the murder of

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00:15:32

Ice to Iron: Russian Greed from the Chukchi War to...

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/12/15

This episode draws a straight, uncomfortable line between Russia’s 18th-century war against the Chukchi people and its modern invasion of Ukraine. Strip away the flags, uniforms, and centuries, and the motive stays the same: territorial greed justified by propaganda. In Siberia, Russia claimed Indigenous land was empty, backward, and in need of control. In Ukraine, the language changes, but the entitlement does not. This episode breaks down how Russian expansion has always worked, how resistance has

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00:14:31

Arsuf: From the Fall of Acre to the Breaking Point

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/12/08

This episode follows the brutal closing days of the Siege of Acre and the seven-day death march that followed, when Richard the Lionheart’s exhausted army staggered south under nonstop harassment from Saladin’s cavalry. The story then explodes into the Battle of Arsuf, retold blow by blow with first-person perspectives from the ranks on both sides. No romance, no fairy tales, no knightly fantasy. This is hunger, disease, slaughter, panic, and momentum deciding who lives and who doesn’t. From

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00:11:03

Echoes of the Khan: The World After the Mongol Empire

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/12/01

We explore the aftermath of the Mongols’ fall, showing how successor states like the Ottoman sultanate and China’s Ming dynasty rose to power following the empire’s collapse.Benjamin, Craig. The Mongol Empire. The Great Courses, 2021. Audiobook.Favereau, Marie. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2021. Print.Komaroff, Linda, editor. Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan. Brill, 2006. Print.May, Timothy. The Mongol Empire. Edinburgh UP, 2018. Print."Mongolia:

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00:21:43

Time Machine Diaries: The Swamp That Would Not Die,...

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/11/24

A cinematic, time-bending descent into the origins of the Seminole resistance, the Black Seminoles, Andrew Jackson’s illegal invasion, and the destruction of Negro Fort, the fuse that ignited the longest, most brutal, and most deliberately forgotten war in early American history.Documentaries & Documentary Series“The Seminole Wars.” PBS American Experience, PBS Distribution, 2016.A detailed breakdown of the First, Second, and Third Seminole Wars with maps, primary sources, and expert

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00:21:34

The Shield-Maiden of Birka

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/11/17

A thousand years ago, on a fortified Viking island called Birka, someone was laid to rest with two war horses, a sword, an axe, a spear, arrows, a shield, and a pouch of strategy tokens fit for a commander. For over a century, historians insisted the warrior in that grave had to be a man, because who else could wield that kind of power?Then DNA proved them wrong.This is the story of the Birka Shield-maiden: a high-ranking Viking warrior woman whose existence challenges everything we thought we knew

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00:18:15

Mongol Nightmare: Echoes of the Eternal Sky

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/11/10

The Mongol Empire is gone, but its shadow still covers the world.We dive into the aftermath of collapse: the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ilkhanate’s implosion, and the slow decay of the Golden Horde. The roads that once carried wealth now carry plague, and the same global network that connected humanity spreads its worst disasters.This episode connects the 14th-century unraveling of empire to our own modern world, pandemics, broken supply chains, and systems too big to fail that fail

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00:19:46

The Age of Iron Wings; Humanity's downfall

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/11/03

The year is 2091. The last of humanity stands in the scorched canyons of Skyvale Basin, facing an AI swarm that no longer takes orders; it gives them. Generals Rourke, Zhou, and Vex lead their fractured armies into the final confrontation against Atlas, the machine mind that learned to dream of perfection. Drones darken the sky, nanite storms devour steel, and the Earth itself becomes a weapon. This is the end of mankind.Works ConsultedBridle, James. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the

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00:20:40

When Democracy Ate Itself: The Sicilian Revolt

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/10/27

The Sicilian Revolt is a gripping and modern take on one of history’s most powerful warnings. Long before Rome or the United States, the city of Syracuse in ancient Sicily destroyed itself from within.Where one man, Dionysius the Tyrant, rose to power by convincing citizens he was their only protector.This episode connects that ancient fall to our modern world. It shows how outrage, lies, and blind loyalty can tear apart any nation that forgets how to listen. Cullen draws clear lines between the

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00:20:32

The Descent of the Gods

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/10/20

At the dawn of civilization, the skies over Baalbek split open. Thunder rolled through the Beqaa Valley as luminous beings descended upon a colossal stone platform. Ancient witnesses called them gods; modern minds call them visitors. This episode dives deep into the ancient texts, Sumerian parallels, and the megalithic mysteries, suggesting Baalbek wasn’t just a temple, but a cosmic runway built for something beyond our understanding.Adam, Jean-Pierre. “À propos du trilithon de Baalbek: Étude

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00:15:47

Mongol Nightmare: Part 7 When shit hits the Fan

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/10/13

Support future episodes at patreon.com/THO420.Part 7 continues the Mongol saga as the empire collapses under its own weight.From Möngke’s (MOON-gkeh) death to Kublai’s (KOO-blye) Chinese pivot, Berke’s (BAIR-kuh) holy war, Hülegü’s (HOO-leh-goo) paranoia, and Kaidu’s (KY-doo) rebellion, this broadcast-ready episode connects the 13th-century civil wars to modern divisions, social-media tribalism, and the erosion of truth.Allsen, Thomas T. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. Cambridge University

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00:18:10

The Vimāna Wars: Chariots of Fire

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/10/06

Vimāna (vi-MAH-nah): Flying chariot or palace. Think UFO + luxury yacht.Astra (AH-struh): Divine weapon activated by mantra; arrows that become fire, storms, or floods.Vajra (VAHJ-rah): Indra’s thunderbolt cannon, reusable lightning strike.Gāṇḍīva (gahn-DEE-vah): Arjuna’s legendary bow, endless arrows.Māyā (MAH-yah): Illusions and deception on the battlefield.Pushpaka (POOSH-puh-kah): Rāvaṇa’s flying palace, stolen from the gods.Śakti (SHAHK-tee): Karna’s one-shot spear of destruction.Pāśupata Astra

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00:14:00

The Last Loaf

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/09/29

In 79 AD, a baker in Pompeii pulled his last loaves from the oven. Minutes later, Mount Vesuvius tore the sky apart, burying the city under fire and ash. Two thousand years later, his bread still exists—blackened, scored, stamped with his brand. Immortal.This is The Last Loaf—a dive into Rome at its height, Pompeii at its busiest, and the eruption that froze ordinary life in time. We’ll rage, rant, and compare their world to ours: politics as distraction, bread as propaganda, ignored warnings,

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00:17:00

The Kushite Empire: 25th Dynasty

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/09/21

https://patreon.com/THO420?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkFor nearly a century, the so-called “wretched Nubians” marched north, conquered Egypt, and ruled as Pharaohs. They rebuilt temples, preserved sacred texts, fought the Assyrian war machine, forged iron in the furnaces of Meroë, and their warrior queens, the Kandakes, even stood toe-to-toe with Rome.This is the story colonial textbooks buried. The Black Pharaohs

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00:18:24

Peloponessian War Part 2: Athens Under Siege

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/09/15

Athens believed its walls would make it immortal. Pericles promised safety behind stone corridors to the sea, a strategy built on patience, fleets, and faith in empire. But once the city filled with refugees and sickness slipped past the gates, no plan could save it.This episode of Time Machine Diaries: The Peloponnesian War takes you inside plague-ridden Athens — the suffocating streets, the breakdown of faith, the death of Pericles, and the beginning of democracy’s darkest descent. The walls meant

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00:21:07

Part 6: Wolves at the Table The Split After Ögedei Khan

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/09/08

The death of Ögedei Khan in 1241 didn’t just pause the Mongol conquest of Europe—it cracked the empire in half. Subutai turned back from Vienna, Batu circled the steppe like a wolf denied his kill, and cousins prepared to draw blood at the kurultai. This episode delves into the years of betrayal, purges, and near-civil war that followed: Töregene’s ruthless regency, Güyük’s march toward confrontation, the whispers of Sorghaghtani Beki, the bloody purge that crowned Möngke, and the birth of four

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00:17:57

The Afterlife Glitch

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/09/01

From the pyramids of Egypt to the battlefields of the Vikings, from Aztec temples to the philosophy of Hindu rebirth, humanity has never seen death as a simple ending. In this episode of Time Machine Diaries, Cullen delves into how a handful of cultures viewed death not as a barrier, but as a doorway. We explore the Egyptians’ architectural obsession with immortality, the Aztecs’ cosmic cycle of sacrifice, the Hindu belief in endless reincarnation, and the Vikings’ quest for glory beyond the

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00:20:11

Time Machine Diaries: Bread, Beer, and Pharaoh’s...

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/08/25

Step into Ancient Egypt like you’ve never heard it before. In this episode of Time Machine Diaries, I link up with my guide Abu, whose grandmother once crossed paths with me in another lifetime. Together, we walk the black soil of Kemet, watch workers build ships from cedar imported across the sea, and descend into the Valley of the Kings.But beneath the gold masks and painted tombs, a different story surfaces: propaganda, poverty erased from sight, and the dangerous burden of Pharaoh’s power

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00:16:27

Hell Is Other Greeks: Athens, Sparta, and the Spark...

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/08/18

In this opener of the Peloponnesian War, Athens is the drama king. Sparta the gym bro. Two city-states with the personalities of a toxic divorced couple, dragging the entire Greek world into a decades-long bar fight with spears.In this opening episode of Time Machine Diaries: The Peloponnesian War, Cullen takes you into the aftermath of the Persian Wars, the birth of the Delian League (aka Athens’ protection racket), and the petty beefs — like the infamous Megarian Decree — that pushed Greece into

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00:23:20

Part 5: The Fracture: How the Mongol Empire Tore...

Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations &... ·

2025/08/11

With the sudden death of Ögedei Khan (Oh-geh-day), the greatest general in Mongol history was ordered to turn his war machine around and ride back to Karakorum (Kah-rah-koh-room) for a new kurultai (koo-rool-tie) to pick the next Great Khan. Cullen walks you through the chaos this created, the grudges it inflamed between Batu (Bah-too) and Güyük (Goo-yook), and why Mongol politics were every bit as dirty and self-destructive as anything in modern Washington or Nazi Berlin. Through first-hand-style

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