Your audio books have become a COVID side effect addiction for me [suggestion] add the middle ages German (Mark Twain) [Wolfram Von Eschenbach][Tristan & Isolde]
I've heard that King Arthur's supposed real life counterpart, Owen, was actually one of the last vestiges of Roman civilization and that Merlin was actually a man named Ambrosius Aurelius who went native druid for a while. Fun story, even if it's not entirely true. I want to say it was from Graham Phillips.
@@celebrityinterviews3691 can you say perheps, that the modern roman empire is our present global world? It's just a thought. And thanks for this great audio upload i enjoyed every minute of it 💖
@@Peterhistoryman69 That's the standard view. But I don't know how useful a view it is, frankly, since we know an enormous amount of information about our current situation and relatively little about Rome. I'm sure there are elements of truth in that position--Rome ceasing to be self-reliant, over-extending itself overseas to compensate for same, etc. But again, our knowledge of Rome is a bit theoretical, whereas our knowledge of the Western world today is decidedly non-theoretical.
@@celebrityinterviews3691 thank you, i think also that it's a comen view to, but what it's not a theoratic view that the western civelesation or western way of thinking, in basic started with the roman empire with strong roots from the acient Greece civelesation Bye bye maybee till next time
The first two Chapters alone are a lesson in failure being repeated by the U.S. today almost verbatim. What an incredibly prophetic read .... or in this case, listen.
…and two years after your comment, things are worse. We have congressional representatives who openly advocate for a terrorist group and a President who intends to fund those same terrorists.
History is cyclical. We never learn from our past. Empires rise and fall; democracies in particular don't last much beyond 200 years. Cheerful outlook, isn't it?!
Well it takes generations, empires don't just fall overnight. Ours will be quick though since nobody cares to put funding into hardening the grid against solar space weather.
I think it's great that he's genuinely interested, much better than that one girl who reads absolutely everything like a sing-song laundry list that makes you wonder what she's really up to when she's pretending to read.
While a good intro overall, listeners should understand that some of the info and opinion in this book are very outdated, and they should follow up with a recent work to get correctives to it.
I was thinking the exact same thing when I first started listening to this audiobook. Soon Our Country will also decline due to corruption and poverty.
@@neilchetwood4625 he does a show called “rick Steve’s Europe” and yours different countries not sure if that’s your thing but I love watching it even just to relax :D
I have read previously about the prophet and the first years of his religion. This version is much the same. I do not understand why anybody would be a votary of it. The violence and cruelty of the beginnings of this religion are obvious and so obviously against the essential teachings of Judaism and Christianity even though there's little difference between the three in the later years. The account of paradise is so obviously fictitious and against reason that is is laughable. Only simple minded people of very limited education and understanding would want to be associated.
If you haven't read Sapiens, it gives you a lot of insight on the role of global religions in the "development" of civilisation. Highly recommended reading.
The Quran is a far more ethical book than the Bible. You have nothing remotely morally abhorrent as, to give only one example, this passage from the Psalms: "happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks". Anyone claiming the moral high ground when they have passages as the aforementioned in their holy book is the true simpleton
@@he110w0rld8 And to think, we have pastors handing out bibles to dangerous criminals in prison, and to every child they can get their hands on, as a way to improve their character? Descriiptions of that jealous, wrathful, vicious Jehovah, who chose some people over all the rest of humanity, then killed them all off several times, commanded "his people" to rape, pillage and plunder as a prize. who called on Abraham to sacrifice his son as proof of his loyalty, then finally killed off his own son, then a church that twists all that into an ideal of love and altruism -- is utterly insane. I don't buy the myth that all these stories are mere analogies of how humanity is made and how best to overcome our weaknesses. How so many people can fall for this crap, I can't figure. Let's hope America WAS NOT fashioned on Judeo-Christian ethics. All we really need to teach is golden rule and the rest flows from that.
One of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to. Many thanks to the Narrator for reading with so much energy and precision.
I love the narrator's laughs at particularly humorous or ridiculous parts. It really puts it in perspective.
A+ on the narration. Couldn’t have been better. Thank you for taking the time to tell such an interesting history.
Thank you for the reading. I found your delivery excellent and paced just right to add enjoyment to a fascinating book
Wonderful reader. Thank you
I wonder what you would think of Tom Sawyer being read by a brit? This voice seems totally incongruous to me.
Excellent audiobook content, excellent narration
This is the best audio and narrator-voice I have ever heard in a lirbovox (or what ever they are called) recording
Digger Norge og :)
Try Cori Samuel’s contributions. She’s excellent.
Algy Pugg is always a good un too.
I like Lily Driver or whatever
What a gift. Thank you.
Steven Seitel must know more about history than anyone else on earth!!!
Your audio books have become a COVID side effect addiction for me
[suggestion] add the middle ages German (Mark Twain) [Wolfram Von Eschenbach][Tristan & Isolde]
What a lovely voice, Thank You Very Much 😊💖
great book, great description of Rome's decline. looking forward to the transition into the middle ages.
I've heard that King Arthur's supposed real life counterpart, Owen, was actually one of the last vestiges of Roman civilization and that Merlin was actually a man named Ambrosius Aurelius who went native druid for a while. Fun story, even if it's not entirely true. I want to say it was from Graham Phillips.
@@radagast7200 Good note. Will look into.
@@celebrityinterviews3691 can you say perheps, that the modern roman empire is our present global world? It's just a thought. And thanks for this great audio upload i enjoyed every minute of it 💖
@@Peterhistoryman69 That's the standard view. But I don't know how useful a view it is, frankly, since we know an enormous amount of information about our current situation and relatively little about Rome. I'm sure there are elements of truth in that position--Rome ceasing to be self-reliant, over-extending itself overseas to compensate for same, etc. But again, our knowledge of Rome is a bit theoretical, whereas our knowledge of the Western world today is decidedly non-theoretical.
@@celebrityinterviews3691 thank you, i think also that it's a comen view to, but what it's not a theoratic view that the western civelesation or western way of thinking, in basic started with the roman empire with strong roots from the acient Greece civelesation
Bye bye maybee till next time
Great reading
The first two Chapters alone are a lesson in failure being repeated by the U.S. today almost verbatim. What an incredibly prophetic read .... or in this case, listen.
Hilarious! You envious 3rd worlders write the funniest comments.
try 'the grachii, marius, and sulla' also by librivox
Not prophetic, just history repeating itself.
…and two years after your comment, things are worse. We have congressional representatives who openly advocate for a terrorist group and a President who intends to fund those same terrorists.
As a seriously disappointed American the first 2 chapters honestly kinda spooked me when I realized what was going on
Love it!
Delightful, despite the sporadic inacuracies of the book.
Just a thank you for this. Really enjoying your reading.
Cool audiobook
That map gets my attention every time I see it! Thanks
Yes, it's upside-down 🙃
The description of the failing Roman Empire at the beginning sounds uncannily familiar to today's world...
Human progress is not an unbroken incline
History is cyclical. We never learn from our past. Empires rise and fall; democracies in particular don't last much beyond 200 years. Cheerful outlook, isn't it?!
Nothing new under the Sun.
40 IQ
Well it takes generations, empires don't just fall overnight. Ours will be quick though since nobody cares to put funding into hardening the grid against solar space weather.
Just realized the map in the thumbnail is upside-down
4:34:35 Feudalism & Monasticism
7:17:40 Frederick II
Very cool
When your so high you think your gona sit threw this in one sitting (it's 3am ATM)
I suppose this is common knowledge to University graduates. I would simplify this into a college course "The reasons for every government of Europe."
1:50:47 lol at the reader laughing at that. it pays to stay behind the scenes sometimes
I think it's great that he's genuinely interested, much better than that one girl who reads absolutely everything like a sing-song laundry list that makes you wonder what she's really up to when she's pretending to read.
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I know this guy, he is good ppl 🤙
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ፍግ, is animal waste mixed with soil to make it fertile, dung, compost, manure.
Subtitles please! For the deaf and immigrants
While a good intro overall, listeners should understand that some of the info and opinion in this book are very outdated, and they should follow up with a recent work to get correctives to it.
The ancient map used as the front page, is upside down. By any reason, accidentally ?
Vielen Dank, Herr "von" Hagenau. :-)
Austrailians think south is the top!!!
Why is "corn" referenced here as in "corn and grain of Russia" 1:20:50? Isn't that a crop from America?
Yes and the discovery of America was in 1492
Sounds like America today
I was thinking the exact same thing when I first started listening to this audiobook. Soon Our Country will also decline due to corruption and poverty.
Constantine wanted to be Jesus incarnate and worshiped as a God. Tacitus helped him partially achieve that goal through adept historical revisionism.
false.. it's well documented the early Christians way before constantine viewed Jesus as the Son of God.
not spreading falsehoods
Erm, that narrator is Charlie Sheen, with his amigos Jack Daniels and Hermana Coca!! 😂👏
Why is the map upside down or am I missing summut?
1:50:52 nice giggle
7:01:50 cute snicker
1:07:53
Nîmes in Southern France 🙃🤕
The person reading this sounds exactly like Rick Steves🤔🧐
I agree!
Who’s that?
@@neilchetwood4625 he does a show called “rick Steve’s Europe” and yours different countries not sure if that’s your thing but I love watching it even just to relax :D
I think he sounds exactly like"the Dude"
@@jessie316942 “The Dude” as in the main character from The Big Lebowski? I don’t think so at all. I’d like to hear him narrate a book, though.
5:15:30
5:53:00
6:00:00
Wrong.
@@dreamdiction lol
1:51
Date of publication?
1926
Sounds like Jeff Bridges
2:29:20
Yorkshire is pronounced Yorksher.
History with all it's volumes vast hath but one page
26:00
I have read previously about the prophet and the first years of his religion. This version is much the same. I do not understand why anybody would be a votary of it. The violence and cruelty of the beginnings of this religion are obvious and so obviously against the essential teachings of Judaism and Christianity even though there's little difference between the three in the later years. The account of paradise is so obviously fictitious and against reason that is is laughable. Only simple minded people of very limited education and understanding would want to be associated.
If you haven't read Sapiens, it gives you a lot of insight on the role of global religions in the "development" of civilisation. Highly recommended reading.
The Quran is a far more ethical book than the Bible. You have nothing remotely morally abhorrent as, to give only one example, this passage from the Psalms: "happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks". Anyone claiming the moral high ground when they have passages as the aforementioned in their holy book is the true simpleton
@@he110w0rld8 And to think, we have pastors handing out bibles to dangerous criminals in prison, and to every child they can get their hands on, as a way to improve their character? Descriiptions of that jealous, wrathful, vicious Jehovah, who chose some people over all the rest of humanity, then killed them all off several times, commanded "his people" to rape, pillage and plunder as a prize. who called on Abraham to sacrifice his son as proof of his loyalty, then finally killed off his own son, then a church that twists all that into an ideal of love and altruism -- is utterly insane. I don't buy the myth that all these stories are mere analogies of how humanity is made and how best to overcome our weaknesses. How so many people can fall for this crap, I can't figure. Let's hope America WAS NOT fashioned on Judeo-Christian ethics. All we really need to teach is golden rule and the rest flows from that.
3:50:00
19:35 corn in Europe? 2000 years ago? Come on folks....smdh
Corn in Europe means wheat, buckwheat, rye or any grain not American "corn" (maize)
Yeah cause we never eat bread 🍞
Americans think the corn in biblical ancient Israel was imported from America, smdh.
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This ist depressiv; does he describe Rome or the US?
I see many Romes in USA.
Jop
Proof you tube is rubbish
A quaint and dated interpretation
4:04:26