Dan Horning and Bernie Maopolski discuss the events of ancient history all over the world, decade by decade, starting at 1000 BC and moving forward. We love history! History, History, History! That’s all we think of … History in the morning, History for lunch, History for dinner… even history right before bed! And we talk about all the key people in Ancient History – Julius Caesar, Gilgamesh, Jesus, Budha, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Solon, Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Herodotus, Homer, Ashurnasirpal, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal, Croesus, Cyrus the Great, and Pisistratus. And the Great Historical Civilizations in History like the Assyrian Empire, Israel, Judah, Babylonia, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Roman Republic and Roman Empire, The Zhou of China, India, and the historical civilizations of the Americas like The Olmecs, Maya, and Chauvin. We have another show on this same feed - What’s New In History - that spans all the eras of history. On What’s New in History we talk about AI, DNA studies, archeology, and characters of history like Christopher Columbus, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Charles Darwin, and Jesus. We have guests like Daniele Bolelli of History on Fire, Gil Kidron of a podcast of Biblical Proportions, and Gary Stevens of History in the Bible.Dan Horning Talks about history from Stockholm Sweden and Bernie Maopolski talks about history from Scranton, PA, USA So if you like History podcasts, like Dan Carlin Hardcore History, you will like our history podcast too!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fanofhistory?locale=sv_SEE-mail: zimwaypodcast (at) gmail.com for Eva and Zimway and bmaopolski@gmail.com for BernieFollow Dan on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How do you ignite a decades-long East-West conflict? Sometimes all it takes is some meddlesome Greeks, a Persian Transformer, and a tight oarhole. In this episode, we revisit a pivotal moment in 500 B...
What´s New In History: Escaping Vesuvius — The Romans Who Lived (00:22:18)
Most people think everyone died when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Pompeii and Herculaneum froze in time — but the story didn’t stop there. In this What’s New in History, we talk to Garry Stevens about t...
229. 500s BC Part 12 When Coins Took Over the World Part 2 (00:38:25)
Picking up where we left off, in part 2 of my conversation with Leo from Classical Numismatics, we go deeper—tracing the earliest coins across Rome, Persia, and beyond. If you think everyone used silv...
228. 500s BC part 11: When Coins Took Over the World (00:37:09)
How did little metal disks became power, propaganda, and paychecks?Could you buy a round of drinks with a coin in 500BC?Well that depends! Some places maybe yes and some places maybe a goat would be b...
What´s New In History - A Slice of PIE (00:33:38)
Before Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit, there was PIE: Proto-Indo-European. Bernie and Garry Stevens unpack the new book PROTO, focusing on the Anatolian branch—especially the Hittites—and what their strang...
227. 506 BC - The Clash at Boju: Sun Tzu’s Moment (500 BCs part 10) (00:41:54)
It’s 506 BCE. The armies of Wu and Chu have finally met at Boju after years of rising tension, personal vendettas, and political ambition. In this episode, we break down the strategies, leadership, an...
226. 506 BC The Battle of Boju (500s BC part 9) (00:38:00)
It started with exiles, legendary assassinations, and a dream of revenge. This is the opening act of the Wu–Chu War, where the state of Wu punched far above its weight — and the state of Chu didn’t se...
225. 508 BC Greek Democracy part 4 (530s BC part 8) (00:38:40)
In this "final" episode of our examination of ancient Greek democracy we compare it with the early Roman Republic which began "coincidentally" at the same time.This won't be the last time we refer to ...
What´s New In History: Sloths, Mastodons, and Armadillos the Size of Cars (00:19:01)
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224. 508 BC Greek Democracy part 3 (500s BC part 7) (00:20:20)
In this episode we talk about men that made up the fleet and army, how the courts worked (you would definitely get jury duty in this system!), and how you could be "dishonored" and thus lose your "civ...
What´s New In History: A Hydraulic Hoax? (00:20:09)
We got a letter from a listener—an actual hydraulic engineer—calling SHENANIGANS! on the big clams of building the pyramids with water power as we explored in a recent episode. So we brought Garry bac...
223. 508 BC The Boule – 500 Random Guys and the Birth of Bureaucracy (500s BCs part 6) (00:45:59)
Democracy wasn’t just showing up and voting in Athens—it needed infrastructure, and that’s where the Boule came in. This episode explores how 500 citizens, chosen at random, met daily to steer the Ath...
What´s New In History: A 2200 year old coin with huge implications (00:24:20)
Welcome our newest coin guru - Leo from Classic Numismatics! Bernie and Leo unpack the significance of a 2,200‑year‑old gold coin featuring Queen Berenice II—discovering power, prestige, and politics ...
222. 508 BC Democracy in Athens (500 BCs part 5) (00:39:27)
In this first of a multi-part series set in the 500s BC, we dive deep into the nuts and bolts of early Athenian democracy. Join us as we explore how Cleisthenes' radical reorganization of the people—f...
What´s New In History - Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of High-Tech Machines Used by Ancient Egyptians to Build the Pyramids (00:19:11)
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221. 508 BC Rome vs Lars Porsena (500 BC part 4) (00:55:21)
King Tarquins first attempts to get Rome back failed and now he has to bring in Lars Porsena, the warrior king of Clusium to fight the roman patricians. But is Lars really going to reinstall Tarquin a...
What´s New In History - We Were Wrong About Egypt’s Most Powerful Queen (00:21:37)
Everyone thought Hatshepsut—the most powerful woman to rule ancient Egypt—was erased from history by jealous men. But a new archaeological study reveals something stranger.In this episode, we explore ...
220. 509 BC The Roman Republic (500s BC part 3) (00:57:17)
Tarquin is locked out of his city and the patricians must now decide what to do with Rome. How can they make sure that no man tries to be king again? This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopol...
What´s New In History - Stamped and Delivered: The PR Power of Ancient Coins (00:36:44)
What do Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and a modern-day marketing director have in common? They all knew how to get their face out there. In this episode, Bernie sits down with Dean Kinzer of Kin...
219. 509 BC The fall of the Roman Kingdom (500s BC part 2) (00:42:40)
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This is the fourth episode in our re-edited Rome series—a clean, bingeable path through the city’s legendary and early historical development. Originally part of our larger decade-by-decade podcast, t...
History of Rome 579-570 BC (00:28:14)
Episode three of our special re-edited Rome series dives deeper into the monarchy—where assassination, ambition, and unlikely succession plans start shaping Rome into something recognizable. These epi...
History of Rome 589-580 BC (00:37:02)
In order to prepare for episode 219 we are releasing all our previous Roman History episodes.This is episode two in our re-edited Rome series, giving new listeners a clean way to follow the early rise...
History of Rome from the beginning until 590 BC (00:36:54)
In order to prepare for episode 219 we are rereleasing all our Roman History episodes...We kick off our special Rome series with the legendary origins of the Eternal City—Romulus, Remus, and all the m...
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