Description:
There are 14 episodes so far. Each episode describes the collapse of a once flourishing civilization. The authors tries to explain how the people felt when they witnessed their world disappeared in their lifetimes. It is probably the third time I recommend this podcast here in LW
Positives:
super high production value
full of interesting insights of many different civilizations
I personally find them relaxing
Negative:
some episodes are really long (this might be a positive)
not apt for people looking for quicky-delivered information
Interesting. I’ll take a look at this one when I have the time; apparently I’ve actually watched part of their Bronze Age Collapse video but I don’t have any recollection of doing so.
I wanted to follow up on this after watching some of the videos from the channel. The production quality is quite high & the narration and writing are great. The one problem I had with the content is that I’ve noticed several mistakes and inaccuracies in the content when the episodes wander into territory that I’m familiar with, and this undermines my confidence in the channel when it comes to subjects I don’t know much about.
As a crude example that particularly stood out to me, in the first episode about Byzantium the narrator says that the emperor Theodosius II was given the news of the sack of Rome in 410 by the Goths. This is false; Theodosius died in 395 and it was in fact his death that (partly) led to the Visigoths breaking the agreement they had previously entered into with the Roman Empire during his rule. It was one of his sons, Honorius, that was Western Emperor in 410.
Name: Fall of civilizations
Type: YouTube channel
Link: https://youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast
Description: There are 14 episodes so far. Each episode describes the collapse of a once flourishing civilization. The authors tries to explain how the people felt when they witnessed their world disappeared in their lifetimes. It is probably the third time I recommend this podcast here in LW
Positives:
super high production value
full of interesting insights of many different civilizations
I personally find them relaxing
Negative:
some episodes are really long (this might be a positive)
not apt for people looking for quicky-delivered information
Interesting. I’ll take a look at this one when I have the time; apparently I’ve actually watched part of their Bronze Age Collapse video but I don’t have any recollection of doing so.
I wanted to follow up on this after watching some of the videos from the channel. The production quality is quite high & the narration and writing are great. The one problem I had with the content is that I’ve noticed several mistakes and inaccuracies in the content when the episodes wander into territory that I’m familiar with, and this undermines my confidence in the channel when it comes to subjects I don’t know much about.
As a crude example that particularly stood out to me, in the first episode about Byzantium the narrator says that the emperor Theodosius II was given the news of the sack of Rome in 410 by the Goths. This is false; Theodosius died in 395 and it was in fact his death that (partly) led to the Visigoths breaking the agreement they had previously entered into with the Roman Empire during his rule. It was one of his sons, Honorius, that was Western Emperor in 410.