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Send us Fan Mail  (~1600 - ~1842 CE · The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, & the Oceans of the World)  The Narrator describes how capitalism in its infancy dabbles in mania, rewards inefficiencies, and funds great evils in the name of progress, even when people do not like the direction things are progressing with specific references to Tulip Mania, The Shipping Concern, The East India Company, and the First Opium War. Based on the first half of Chapter 12 of End by Geoff Micks.  Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (1512 - ~1670 CE · Italy, Spain, & Northwestern Europe)  The Narrator talks about the Reformation and the rise of Mercantilism with notable appearances by a Spanish friar, Dutch land reclamation schemes, and the Banda Islands, among other things. Based on the second half of Chapter 11 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (~1400 - 1512 CE · Italy & Spain)  The Narrator remembers the end of the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the Renaissance. He also talks about the time he got to sit in the Sistine Chapel, looking up, as a cantankerous artist who owed him money painted a ceiling. Based on the first half of Chapter 11 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (2015 · Northern India, &  ~1273- ~1330 CE · Baghdad, Cairo, Baghdad, & Timbuktu)  The Narrator finishes his game of famous Muslims unknown to most Westerners with the tale of Mansa Musa, an emperor who gave away so much gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca that he flooded the Eastern Mediterranean with the precious commodity, deflating its market value and crashing the economy of medieval Egypt. Based on the second half of Chapter 10 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (2015 · Northern India, & 814 – ~1273 CE · Christendom,  Al-Andalus, Constantinople, Cairo, Baghdad, & Rum)  The Narrator resumes his story, this time with his unexpected guest listening as he works. To amuse himself, he tells stories of his time with al-Khwarizmi, Omar Khayyam, and Rumi, confident those giants of medieval Islamic thought will be new to her.   Based on the first half of Chapter 10 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (2015 CE · Northern India)  The Narrator and his mystery guest meet for a second time and agree he should finish recording his life's story before they have the conversation that motivated her to seek him out on the far side of the world. Based on Chapter 9 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks, Paulette Anderson Micks, and Melissa Buttrill Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (756  – 814 CE · Rome, Greece, Constantinople, & More)  The Narrator recalls a happy time in his life where he worked as a caterer and party planner, and how this dragged him against his will into the orbit of an orphaned girl who would one day become the only Empress to rule in her own right in the history of the Roman Empire. Based on the second half of Chapter 8 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (~740 – 756 CE · Spain, France, and Italy)  The Narrator remembers his time living among the Franks, and especially one frigid morning where he acted as a translator between a little boy and a Pope who fled Italy in the depths of winter to borrow an army on the strength of one of history's most important and breathtaking bald-faced lies. Based on the first half of Chapter 8 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (710 – ~775 CE · Constantinople, Syria, The Holy Land, North Africa, & Spain)  The Narrator continues his lecture on world events with terrible updates from the Greek-speaking Roman Empire ruled from Constantinople that eventually led to the Iconomachy, the struggle over religious images that would torment Orthodox Christianity for generations. He also explains the rise and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Revolution, and the flight of Abd al-Rahman to Al-Andalus. Based on Chapter 7 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (710 – ~751 CE with mentions of events from earlier centuries · Spain, The Holy Land, France, & Rome)  The Narrator relates how he changed lives from operating as a successful horse ferryman between North Africa and Spain to working as a tinker in Jerusalem, and the tragedy that unfolded when his elderly 'widow' from his earlier life found him alive and unchanged decades later. He also discusses the origins and early history of the Franks, and how the Papacy came to have an unexpected influence over the old western European half of the Roman Empire, which was coming to be called Christendom. Based on Chapter 6 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (662 – 710 CE · Northern Africa )  The Narrator shares the small part he played in bringing Islam to North Africa west of Egypt, as well as a remarkable conversation he had with Dihya, a Christian Berber queen whose frustrated Muslim enemies believed could see into the future.  Based on Chapter 5 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (656 - 662 CE · Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, & Iraq)  The Narrator discusses both the first civil war between Muslims, and the part Amr ibn Al-As played in both ending the struggle and driving deep divisions into the Islamic world in exchange for becoming the ruler of Egypt again.  Based on Chapter 4 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (644 - 656 CE · Egypt, Palestine, & Arabia)  The Narrator recounts how Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and later Caliph Uthman were assassinated, the differences between their lives and deaths, and how the community of Muslims was shaped by these events.  Based on Chapter 3 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (633 - 644 CE · The Holy Land, Arabia, & Egypt)  The Narrator serves as personal secretary to Amr ibn Al-As and takes part in the Arab conquest of Egypt, which happened despite the objections of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab.  Based on Chapter 2 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail (2015 CE · Northern India & 600 - 633 CE · The Holy Land  & Arabia)  Emotionally scarred after surviving a pandemic and exhausted by Christianity's internal turmoil and schisms, the narrator meets Amr ibn Al-As, who inspires him to become a Muslim  as that new faith is first expanding out from the Arabian Peninsula.  Based on the Intro and Chapter 1 of End by Geoff Micks. Enjoying the show? Tell us a little about yourself, submit a comment, and/or ask a question through this short survey. For more, visit my podcast website and personal website.  Follow me on Bluesky.  Follow me on Substack. Join my Facebook page. Support me on Patreon. Credits:  Voice Acting - Geoff Micks, Paulette Anderson Micks, Melissa Buttrill, and Rohan Makdani  Editing - Geoff Micks Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay  Support the show