A Short Walk through Our Long History

Episode 8.1 -  Ancient Greek Military Strategy Hi, my name is Clayton Mills.  Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world.  Welcome to Episode 8.1 -  A side trip to look at ancient Greek military strategy and weapons.  Specifically hoplites and triremes.  I’ve mentioned that ancient G...

Episode 8 -  The Persian Wars Hi, my name is Clayton Mills.  Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world.  Welcome to Episode 8 -  The Persian Wars.  We’re talking today about the ancient wars between Greece and Persia.  I’ve mentioned that Greece has had an important impact on the we...

Episode 7 -  The Kingdom of Israel Hi, my name is Clayton Mills.  Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world.  Welcome to Episode 7 -  The Kingdom of Israel.  Back in Episode 5, I mentioned that Israel had an outsized influence on the history of the Western world, considering its siz...

Hi, my name is Clayton Mills.  Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world.  Welcome to Episode 6 -  The Iliad and the Trojan War.   One of the most famous events of the ancient world is war between the Greeks and the Trojans, which is told in the epic novel the Iliad, and then finish...

Episode 5.1 -  The development of written language and literacy [intro music] Hi, my name is Clayton Mills.  Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world.  Welcome to Episode 5.1 - The development of written language and literacy.   Next time, we’re going to be taking a look at one of...

Welcome to Episode 5 - Early Greece and the first City-States.  Last time, we looked at one of the great civilizations of the ancient world - Egypt.  Our modern culture was not all that directly influenced by Egypt, though you could say our modern culture was very influenced by the Israelites that came out from Egypt.  It’s interesting to me that a small, relatively powerless, backwater nation as...

Welcome to Episode 4 - The Gods of Egypt, and the Law of Moses.  Today we are going to look at one of the more important, and durable, civilizations of the ancient world - Egypt… While most of the world was living in tents and small towns, scraping out a meager existence, Egypt started building huge cities of brick and stone, with massive monuments and even pyramids.  Did you know that the Great P...

Hi, my name is Clayton Mills.  Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world. Welcome to Episode 3 - The Biblical creation narrative.  Today we’re going to take a closer look at the creation story that’s found in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible.  The story in Genesis is...

The creation narratives of the ancient world, including the biblical book of Genesis, were written in part to answer both of these questions:  Why are we here?  And also, ‘Why is life so hard?’  People in the ancient world had to wake up too, and they probably asked that same question, especially on school days.   Many ancient cultures had creation stories that sought to answer why the world is th...

An introduction to the ideas of this podcast, and an overview of where it's going. Also, I talk a bit about tyranny. Which is a bad thing, generally.