The story of Islam's beginnings have been told and retold countless times. The traditional narrative says that the Prophet Muhammad, an illiterate orphan from …
Episode 47: Indian Ocean Trade from its Origins to the Eve of Imperialism
Every American schoolchild knows that Columbus sailed west to reach Asia with the hopes of finding precious metals, expensive fabrics, and exotic spices: all …
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Episode 31: Who are the Turks?
Over the past two thousands years, the Turkic peoples have migrated and expanded from a small group of pastoral nomads in what is now western China to form …