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The Radio History of The World Episodes

  1.

    War in the Nuclear Age

    As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began

  2. Total War

    In the early 20th century, conflict came to involve not just armies but entire nations

  3. India and the Coming of the British

    How the Mughal age of conflict-avoidance came to an end

  4. God and Gold: the Spanish in South America

    The tragedy of Europe's first contact with the natives of America

  5. The Slave Trade

    Europeans in Ghana began the slave trade more than 500 years ago

  6. Battle as Divine Judgment

    How warfare affected the development of Europe in the Middle Ages

  7. The Crusades, the First Ideological War

    How Pope Urban II sponsored war on Islam

  8. The World's Most Successful Conqueror

    Mongols mastermind Genghis Khan, who brought terror to the known world

  9. Interesting Times: Ancient China

    The quest for stability amid the ever-present threat of violence

  10. The Romans, Torn Apart by Success

    From insignificant city state to the ancient world's most formidable military power

  11. The City States That Became Greece

    How military discipline underpinned the social fabric

  12. The Origins of Warfare

    In a world with few humans there was little conflict. So what changed 30,000 years ago?