Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism Explicit

by 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 strateg ...   ...  Read more
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Podcast episodes

  • Season 4

  • West African Hunter Gatherers, the Round Head Period, and New Languages

    West African Hunter Gatherers, the Round Head Period, and New Languages

    S04 E03
    32:51

    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. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/RW3Pm7leFdw

  • Central Africa and it's Gatherers

    Central Africa and it's Gatherers

    S04 E02
    36:45

    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/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/JH499Nil6XQ

  • Neolithic South Africa and Pastoral East Africa

    Neolithic South Africa and Pastoral East Africa

    S04 E01
    42:37

    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

  • Early Urban Infrastructure and Features

    Bonus

    Early Urban Infrastructure and Features

    S04
    45:47
    Bonus

    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/WarAdRevPod YouTube:https://youtu.be/0etj839Fa3E

  • The City and The State

    Bonus

    The City and The State

    S04
    44:39
    Bonus

    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/WarAdRevPod Twitter: https://youtu.be/XsmZniUlZyA