The History of Mankind

Hello and welcome. In this episode we shall cover the AIDS crisis and the Rwanda Genocide and we shall come to our major challenge: global warming and why "drill baby drill" may not be the answer.

In this episode we cover the Korean War, the Vietnam War, we watch as Nixon goes to China, we watch as Nixon resigns - but not after he arranged for the Chilean President to be murdered - and we witness the Revolution in Iran.

In this episode we will talk about the Holocaust and the many consequences of World War 2

In this episode we shall have a look at a number of famous and infamous battles of World War 2. We shall discover surprising incompetence and even stupidity in some cases.

In this episode we look at World War 2 and ask ourselves if indeed it was a World War. Then we look at various aspects of the war, for instance when it really started, which in our opinion was much earlier than 1939.

Hello in this episode we shall look at the interwar years, including the Spanish Flu, hyper inflation in Germany, the crash of the stock market at genocide in the Crimea.

In this episode we cover World War 1 including Gallipoli and the Versailles Treaty. But we begin with time.

Hello again. In this episode we discuss Napoleon, especially Waterloo. Beyond Napoleon, we have a look at the industrial and agricultural revolutions that followed in his wake.

Hello here in this somewhat shorter episode we will have a look at heliocentrism, deforestation of Europe, and the French Revolution.

In this somewhat longer podcast we shall look at the Renaissance, the discovery of the Americas, try to understand why the United States were so successful. Finally, we need to study slavery and colonialism.

In this episode we look at the dark ages, which were not really all that dark. We have unpleasant visits from the Mongols, but we also adopt the numeric system and the episode ends with the Black Death

In this podcast we shall discover the early Empires, starting with the Persian Empire all the way up to the Roman Empire. We shall also look at morals of the past.

In this episode we enter the Bronze Age, followed by the Iron Age, the first democracies and the first great scientists

In this episode we explore many more unexpected, and some unwanted, consequences of farming including slavery.

In this episode we shall discover how Mankind migrated from being hunter gatherers to farmers, and the very many consequences of agriculture.

Hi and welcome. In this episode we finally meet the first human beings, starting with rather obscure ones all the way to Homo sapiens, which is us. We look at tools and what Anton Pannekoek wrote about this, and we discover ... fire!

Dinosaurs have disappeared and their roles are taken over by us, mammals. We discover about whales and dolphins and the first apes appear. We have a further look into genetics and evolution.

Here we witness the rise and the - dramatic - fall of the Dinosaurs. A giant collision rocks the earth and destroys most life on earth. We explain Darwin and finally mammals start to play a major role.

In this Episode, life becomes serious and explodes! Also, our planet becomes green and insects start to fly. There are large catastrophes and we see the first glaciations.

In this Episode we cover the origins of life, and how it rapidly evolved into more complex creatures. These invent photosynthesis and produce Oxygen. We also talk about DNA and mitochondria. We end with the Edicarians.

In this episode we cover the very beginning: the Big Bang all the way to the formation of our planet, and we end just before life starts. We cover over 6 Billion years in under 15 minutes.