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205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi (Ep 2)

11/21/2024 • 44 min

“In Herat a man can’t stretch out his leg without touching a poet’s backside” - Babur It’s 1506, and Babur leaves his beloved base in Kabul to visit his cousins in Herat, Afghanistan. But whilst he is shyly standing in the corner at parties and receiving a speedy education in poetry and calligraphy, his nemesis Shaybani Khan sacks the city he had left behind. B… Play episode

204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor (Ep 1)
203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland
202. Long John Silver: The Truth Behind Treasure Island
201. The Raj at War
200. The East India Company’s Global Manhunt
199. Robbing the World’s Wealthiest Dynasty
198. The Pirate Trial of the Century
197. The Pirate Hunter
196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror
195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean
194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money
193. Empire of Numbers: The Indian Origin of Arabic Numerals
192. Native American Chiefs, the Founding of Canada, and the KKK: Scots in…
191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa
190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India
189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand
188. Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Pretender
187. The Birth of Britain
186. Scotland: A Nation in Crisis
185. The God Kings of Angkor Wat
184. The Buddhist Merlin
183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia
182. The Lady Macbeth of China
181. The Dragon Empress: China’s Game of Thrones
180. Gold & God: Connecting India & Ancient Rome
179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere
178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon
177. The Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson, Americanisation, and Operation Rolli…
176. The Vietnam War: The Rise of Ho Chi Minh
175. The CIA vs Fidel Castro
174. The Cuban Revolution
173. The Korean War: Dividing the Peninsula
172. The Birth of North Korea
171. The Bengal Famine: Chaos in Calcutta
170. The Bengal Famine: A Disaster on the Horizon
169. Freedom Fighters Betrayed: Colonising the Philippines
168. Teddy Roosevelt Takes on the Old World
167. Paradise Lost: The Taking of Hawaii
166. How To Hide An Empire
165. A Massacre at Dawn
164. How the West was Won: The Truth Behind the Westerns
163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American
162. The Oregon Trail & the Gold Rush
161. The Trail of Tears
160. Native Nations vs Thomas Jefferson
159. The American Revolution: Building The New Rome (Ep 4)
158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep…
157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2)
156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1)

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