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Landmark world history from the creator of the top ten podcast “Fall of Civilizations”, for fans of Jared Diamond and David Graeber.
Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.
Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, “Fall of Civilizations” brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.
Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.
Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, “Fall of Civilizations” brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.
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These concise histories of 12 vanished civilizations began as a series of podcasts but prove unexpectedly cohesive and powerful coming together as an audiobook. Author Paul Cooper's narration is distinctly accented and a bit repetitive in his cadences; nonetheless, he is an effective and highly agreeable guide through four millennia of strife and mayhem. Cooper's chapters encompass the growth and
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