ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Deep dive into the history of humanity! We talk about the idiosyncratic characters, weird ideas, and funky societies that make the past an endless source of inspiration and funny jokes.
my history is good. one episode = 3 credit class
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Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
61 minutes
English
United States
6 episodes
since Oct. 11, 2023
episodic
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The Medici rose from an obscure clan of suckups to become the dominant family in Florence, pulling the strings and becoming secret dictators of the Banker’s Republic. Guile, cunning, a little bit of luck, and a lot of finance shenanigans. They were sponsors of the Renaissance, or so they claimed…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
The Guilds are strong, but not equal. The merchants are bringing great wealth to the city, but not everyone benefits. The politics are glamorous, but not everyone takes part. The situation is ripe for an uprising.
This episode is so beefy.
1350-1390
The city encounters problems stemming from its own ambition and a foreigner is invited to take temporary control, but he exacerbates a growing class divide, sparking uprisings, all under the shadow of the Pestilence. Meanwhile the bankers turn the crisis to their advantage.
1300-1350
Caught between the Pope and the Empire, Florence starts to take shape. The city goes through transformations as new constitutions and governing techniques are tried, developed, discarded, overthrown, retried. Welcome to the Flourishing Republic.
We're off baby!
Ira Allen will have you wondering why he gets credit for anything at all. Businessmen trying to overthrow governments? What is this, modernity?
The story of Ethan Allen's life will have you asking: how does it take so long to write a bad book?
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