History of Asia

51 Episodes

1. 3.12. Iron Age Assyria. The most cruel empire in history?

   Published: 3/23/2025
2. Short announcement

   Published: 3/23/2025
3. 3.11. The Umayyads. ‘l’union fait la force’ or ‘divide and rule’?

   Published: 11/13/2024
4. 3.10 The Islamic Golden Age

   Published: 8/27/2024
5. 3.9. The Ottomans. True survivors

   Published: 6/27/2024
6. 3.8. The sick man and his strong medicine

   Published: 4/21/2024
7. 3.7. The Mandatory Period. Original sin.

   Published: 3/7/2024
8. 3.6. How has it come to this? And why does it matter?

   Published: 2/12/2024
9. 3.5. Syria and Iraq in the 50s and 60s. In a state of nature?

   Published: 1/20/2024
10. 3.4. 1970-90s, Saddam and Assad. In a state of terror.

    Published: 12/12/2023
11. 3.3. Mission Accomplished. The Iraq War, and its aftermath.

    Published: 11/12/2023
12. 3.2. The Arab Winter

    Published: 10/14/2023
13. 3.1. Iraq and Syria today

    Published: 9/28/2023
14. 2.21. Elam. In search of mad kings

    Published: 9/2/2023
15. 2.20 A convenient "Truth"

    Published: 7/29/2023
16. 2.19 The Achaemenid Persians: The evil empire (?)

    Published: 6/29/2023
17. 2.18 4th Century BCE. Invading hell, becoming the devil.

    Published: 5/25/2023
18. 2.17. Your own, personal, Alexander

    Published: 5/4/2023
19. 2.16. An ancient civil world war

    Published: 4/30/2023
20. ? skcabhsalf yhW: sunoB

    Published: 4/1/2023