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 29: The Slavic Vampire
Long before Bill and Sookie, Bella and Edward, there was the upyr', a mythical creature that caused crops to fail, infants to die in their cribs, and plagues to …